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Discovering Britain’s Home Front 1914-18

Between 1914 and 1918 Britain’s cities, towns, villages and countryside were transformed by war.  For the first time in generations her population was directly threatened by conflict.  Coastal towns were… READ MORE

The Process of Preparing Maps

Giles Darkes, Cartographic Editor for The British Historic Towns Atlas, discusses the process of preparing the maps for the latest volume in the collection – Windsor and Eton. When cartographers create maps, we’re… READ MORE

Art, Artisans and Apprentices

A consideration of the training of artists before the emergence of academies of art inevitably follows a trajectory from the trade to the profession.  This was once a sequence of… READ MORE

A Test of Time and A Test of Time Revisited

The great volcanic eruption of the Thera (or Santorini volcano) in the southern Aegean has been central to several archaeological controversies. Originally, the main question was whether this eruption (now… READ MORE

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