Category: History

General History

Changing Landscapes

I’m interested in how landscapes change when we build canals, railways, roads, and even other structures like castles. Long after

Ever since humans first flattened a piece of land for crops or dug out ground for a house, we have

A “Full Illustrated Report of the debate on The Abolition of Trousers Bill” from a 1909 edition of The Tailor

The Tailor and Cutting Academy At JOHN WILLIAMSON CO. LTD. 42, GERRARD STREET, LONDON, W Background: In 1888 (or thereabouts)

When I put “to be continued” at the bottom of my page about the Cardiff Railway, I hadn’t meant to

I created this map by overlaying the modern OpenStreetMap with the OS 1:25,000 1937-1961 map (courtesy of the National Library

I took a walk along the course of the old Pentyrch and Melingriffith Tramway and filmed it using hyperlapse. EDIT:

This is the eighth, and final, article taken from “The Tailor’s Handbook of Useful Information” by W.D.F. Vincent published in

This is from the sixteenth part of the handbook, finishing the look at where the materials used for making our

This is taken from the Wokingham Fire Brigade diaries which were in the possession of my father for a while