A little bit of history was made last month. So far as I can tell it didn’t make the news but I feel it should be recorded as it marks…
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The Venice Time Machine is an interesting project underway at the Digital Humanities Lab of Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). The team have embarked on a ten year digitisation…
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The History and Future of Everything is a beautiful infographic movie showing the increasingly vast timescales of Big History. The work is a collaboration between the blog WaitButWhy and the information…
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In 2011 the historian David Christian gave a talk at TED in California. His subject was “Big History“, the cross-discipline study of history he began teaching in Australia in the early…
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Back when I lived in London my commute by train would take me past a small unassuming office building in Vauxhall. The only reason it caught my eye at all…
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“In my own time. On my own time.” is a project by Royal College of Art graduate Charlotte Christofferson. The project examines how gender and age affect our perception of…
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Churches and alehouses are ubiquitous in Britain. The names change from time to time but many of the sites have been occupied for centuries. Back before the advent of GPS and…
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I once met a prominent member of the UK Sceptics Society. It was on the day of Douglas Adams funeral and I was mourning in good company. I was in…
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Big History chronicles all the major events from the Big Bang to the present day. It attempts to bring together the timelines of written history, archeology, geology and cosmology, and…
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Last weekend I took part in History Hack Day. I’ve been wanting to reboot the Computus Engine for a while and what better excuse than this. As a Hack Day…
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