Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
Well, according to the FT Magazine article, Defining Moment – Japanese knotweed invades Britain, he was the person responsible for introducing Japanese knotweed to the British Isles, way back on 9 August 1850. Mind you, he also got up to some fairly dodgy dealings in its native Japan. Perhaps as Read more …
Sea levels are rising to alarming levels, species are threatened with extinction, but if you read the latest news stories it’s getting even worse: we will now have to mow our lawns all year round deadly moths are invading the UK (OK, maybe not) there’s a deadly witch doctor’s plant Read more …
I’ve just seen on the London Photobloggers site that the National Theatre is staging an exhibition from today until into February entitled after the wave after the wave, held jointly with some of Britain’s top news photographers, is a visual testimony to the incredible strength of the men, women and Read more …
A press release from the Forestry Commission claims that Scotland remains home to britain’s tallest tree as dughall mor reaches new heights. It seems that this particular douglas fir, whose name in Gaelic means big dark stranger, was claimed to have been overtaken by a tree in Wales, but that Read more …
/etcetera/blog/DSCF0136calender.jpgHere’s a quick Christmas present suggestion (from the king of festive shopping – not!). Charity calendars are not exactly new, after all the WI having been baring all for years and I now see that even a bunch of British female athletes have jumped on the bandwaggon with their own Read more …