technology
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Here’s all you need to know about this link, including that each episode features the marvellous Phil Harding, of Time Team fame. Oh arrr, Phil! Long may you reign! “….A new app which describes the history of Wiltshire towns has been launched today. “….Each town gets an audio introduction from a popular member of the…
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Forgotten Password, from the “Rejects of Lord Zarquon” album: I might need to write another song About some things that I think are so wrong It might be one about Richard the Third Or my most recent forgotten password When I tried to log into Facebook I…
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The news has broken that the Book of Hours belonging to Thomas Cromwell is here which appears in the Holbein portrait above, has been recognised (by Hever Castle curator, Alison Palmer) as the Hardouyn Hours, held today at Trinity College, Cambridge. You can view the Hardouyn Hours page by page at the Wren Digital…
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… that Canterbury Cathedral has some of the world’s oldest stained glass. The “windolyser”, which is a new non-destructive technique designed to date windows in situ, has placed some of the “Canterbury Ancestors” some years before both Becket‘s matyrdom and the fire, four years later, that destroyed the building around them, showing that they were…
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… by a thing called the internet. The internet may only have been invented by (Sir) Tim Berners-Lee (left) during the eighties but it has a much older patron saint – the seventh century Archbishop of Seville, Isidore. St. Isidore (right), who died in 636, was chosen because he wrote the Etymologiae, an early encyclopedia…
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This documentary, presented by Robert Hardman of the Daily Mail, unveils some of our longest-serving King’s secrets, such as a draft abdication letter after American independence was achieved. It also discusses his health issues in greater detail. Until recently, it was thought that he suffered from porphyria, a physical disease that Mary Stuart carried to…