The British landed on the then barren island of Kong Hong in 1841 as they were hastily mustering military forces in the area for yet
Category: Human Interest
Anything that does not fit into to any of the other specific categories and is of general interest!
Franco-British Exhibition (1908) – ‘White’ City Indeed…
I was looking through an attic recently, and I came across this old postcard preserved in a plastic wallet and dated to Edward VII. The
Global Cooling: How the BBC Manipulated Opinion in the 1970s
Prof. Brian J Ford states in a recent book that only 10% of the academic literature of the scientific community in the 1970s speculated about global cooling, (with this body of unconvincing work being viewed very much as ‘pseudo-science’), with 90% of the same literature providing concrete evidence of a rapid ‘global warming’ caused primarily through capitalist methods of (exploiting) and interacting with the environment!
Our Visit to the Museum of Croydon (6.8.2019)
Raymond Riesco Gallery CROYDON: CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF COUNCIL HOUSING We headed into Croydon via public transport last Tuesady, to visit an exhibition celebratig 100
Croydon Museum: Raymond Riesco Gallery – Roman, Anglo-Saxon & Chinese Objects and Artwork (6.8.2019)
Croydon: Raymond Riesco Gallery Raymond Riesco (1877-1964) was a British Solicitor who collected stamps as well as Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Chinese works of art and
Vintage Church of England Prayer Book (c. 1860)
I have this Church of England Prayer Book in my possession. I think I found in a batch of old books that was passed on
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 