Vikings

A meeting at the British Museum enabled me to finally visit the Viking exhibition in the new exhibition gallery a…

London Buses (2): AEC Regent III

Continuing in my nostalgia vein at the London Transport Museum, lets turn to the first bus I remember from my…

They say that familiarity breeds contempt and that certainly might be true in the case of the Black-headed Gull. One…

The eighth century, marked the high point of the Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia. Having conquered and subdued the countries to…

This is the first in a series of posts following a recent visit to the London Transport Museum. It may…

I have been doing some work in recent months for the Bethlem Royal Hospital museum as part of a group…

The Canaanite city of Lachish was destroyed in the 12th century BCE. It is unclear as to who was responsible…

The Triangulum Galaxy (AKA Messier 33 or NGC 598) is a spiral galaxy at a distance of 3,000,000 light years…

Despite a brief shower when we got back from the Tarn the weather improved again and so I decided to…

I had set today aside to do some Butterfly and Dragonfly recording in Surrey, but on waking up and finding…