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Viking re-enactment at Pegwell Bay
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A visit to an ancient Celtic salt mine in the Salzkammergut
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A visit to the archaeological museum in Hallein, home of the Celts
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There’s also an archaeological museum in the grounds of the castle. Before you went in though, you had to pay…
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A Baroque palace with peacocks and Dutch paintings
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The former Hotel Kyjev is one of the most striking buildings in Bratislava. The circular design is actually new, originally…
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A visit to the Archaeological Museum in Bolzano, home of Ötzi the Iceman
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A Neolithic tomb.
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The former Checkpoint Alpha between East and West Germany.
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Happy Christmas, if you celebrate it. I was brought up unreligious, by unbelieving parents, in a not very religious country,…
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Here’s some photos from a while back in Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei a beauty spot near where my mum lives in Northern France.…
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It’s very unlikely I or anyone else will be travelling much this summer (I’ve not been more than a mile…
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If you study Latin in the UK, there’s a very good chance you will use the Cambridge Latin books from…
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Scanning more vintage books – this time a history of costume book that my mum won as a school prize…
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I found this book in a charity shop. It’s a practical guide to alternative living in London from 1969/70 covering…
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When clearing out my grandparents’ house a couple of years ago I found seven packets of these 60s tourist slides…
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On my way back from the Tyrol, I stayed in Munich en route to the airport, and visited the Dachau…
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Here’s some more old sketchbook pages I scanned, this time from the British Museum.
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My university library had a massive stack of printing industry annuals from the 1890s through to the 20s. I always…
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Recently I went to the Malevich exhibition at the Tate Modern. I was vaguely aware of him as an avant-garde…
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In the days when I worked at Hampton Court I got to go to quite a few of their special…
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While I was in Birmingham, I visited the Pen Museum. Because I gave a small donation, one of the kind…
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I’m fascinated by the history of the Cold War. Both the political side, and the social history of people’s everyday…
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When I was in Dresden, I bought a photography book by a local photographer. Günter Starke lived in Dresden Neustadt,…
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Earlier today I met up with my friend Chloe on her way up to Glasgow, and we went to the…
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Here’s some photos of a painting I like. It shows Henry VIII setting sail for the Field of the Cloth…
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These are from some photos I took in Whitstable a few weeks ago, a pretty oyster fishing town in Kent…
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I’ve always had a soft spot for 30s suburbia. These two pictures are a place called Twydall, near where my…
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Here are some pictures from the Geffrye Museum in Hoxton. It used to be an almshouse, and is now a…
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Last week I went to the Museum of Childhood with Melanie and Becca. I’ve been to the place so many…
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I went to see the Museum of 51 exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall a while back, which is about…
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And a shot of Stonehenge looking like there’s no-one there. I took this when I worked as a tour guide…
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Here’s some b&w pictures I took in Bath a few winters ago. I finally got the film developed after finding…
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I got this 70stastic book for £1 from a charity shop, mainly because of the pictures. The textual parts are…
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I’ve done some risograph prints based on one of my university projects to try to raise some money. The life…
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Wanders round Kits Coty and the back lanes
