Falmouth is a long way from nearly everywhere else, if you’re travelling by land. This is a very salient fact. […]
December 5, 2025
Greetings from Cambridge! Today we’re looking at a college so old it doesn’t even need to be called “college”. Let’s […]
November 28, 2025
Greetings from Hatfield! This week’s blog come full of post-war scientific and technological optimism. We begin in 1944: Alan Butler, […]
November 14, 2025
Greetings from Oxford! Let me start with an uncontroversial statement: the nineteenth century was very different to the current century. […]
November 7, 2025
Back in 1943 the UK government knew that more school teachers would be needed. The school leaving age was to […]
October 31, 2025