It’s now been a week since the first cut of ‘UK TV Rewind‘ went up and it’s just crossed the 100th video – 119 to be exact!
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Category: History
UK TV Rewind
It’s been a little while since my last project, so here’s a new one: UK TV Rewind
It’s a fairly simple concept; take a load of clips of classic British TV, extract the air dates, and then insert them into an easy to use timeline.
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It’s now 25 year since 9/11, so it’s probably a good time to point you all back at the Internet Archive’s Understanding 9/11 TV timeline.
The First Lendal Bridge…
It’s been a little while, but here’s another update to Crossing the Ouse – a look at the failed first attempt to build Lendal Bridge!
An Introduction to Thatched Buildings and Thatching in England
The Historic England blog has a lovely article on thatched building and thatching in England. I do like thatch and – fire risk notwithstanding – would love to live in one.
Ordinary Abundance
‘A modern apartment is full of things that once drew the same kind of awe.‘
Why I Still Miss the Golden Age of Lunchtime Children’s Television
Over at CuriousBritishTelly there’s a nice short article of the history of children’s lunchtime TV – Why I Still Miss the Golden Age of Lunchtime Children’s Television.
A Brief Introduction to the Buildings of England’s Jewish Heritage
The Historic England Blog has a nice introduction to some of the buildings of England’s Jewish Heritage. It’s interesting and well worth a read.
The Bronze Age of Globalization
This is an interesting article on the Bronze Age trade in tin and copper in the Mediterranean, it’s subsequent collapse, and how the iron replaced copper, leading to the iron age.
May in Medieval Poetry
It’s the middle of the month and, after a little poking around, I’ve found a really interesting article at ‘A Clerk of Oxford‘ on May in Medieval poetry.