A new documentary film has just been completed about the late artist and builder Mike Kahn, Lloyd’s cousin. Here’s a trailer:
Air raid shelters were commonplace in Britain during the Blitz but do you know what sets the two most common types, Anderson and Morrison, apart?
A new documentary film has just been completed about the late artist and builder Mike Kahn, Lloyd’s cousin. Here’s a trailer:
Plan the hell out of it and share the hell out of it. That's the essence of the AtoZ Challenge and what the challenge has taught me as a blogger
It may have changed in the past decade, but blogging isn't dead. It's just time to revive it a little. Old-school, unpretentious blogs are the answer.
Gerda Drews of Germany lived through the bombing of Berlin and here she gives her eyewitness account.
Air raid shelters were commonplace in Britain during the Blitz but do you know what sets the two most common types, Anderson and Morrison, apart?
One thing NaNoWriMo is very good at is make us figuring out how to do things in the most effective way. Here's my take away about revising
Completed in 2015 in Auckland, New Zealand. Images by Lance Herbst. The project comprises of 2 new pavilions. The siting of these pavilions is alongside an existing large H shaped house. The H shaped house sits on a...
My latest Old Type Writer column on Jennifer Zartman Romano's popular newsblog Talk of the Town. http://talkofthetownwc.com/oldtypewriter This ...
The Lost Generation was basically a shell-shocked generation. Whether they had been in the war or not, these youth suffered from the unreconcilable clash between what society traditionally expected of them and what they had to deal with in the new world.
Ever since the Vipp shelter was launched, I´ve I had a crush on it. But after being invited to the shelter by Vipp and be able to see it in real life ( see my Instagram photos here ), I´ve gone from a
Awful as it was, WWI produced unforeseen positive results. One of these serendipitous results was a huge leap forward in medical science
THE PAVEMENT is a short film noir produced by director Taylor Engel n 2015. Short and poignant.
This is our funny USA building in Humboldt County. Menthé and I built it in about 10 days. We used old first-growth cedar for the frame and old yellow shakes for the roof. The timber is a mix betwe…
It is a fact of the blogging business: after a while, you need to change. You grow off of your shoes, become more savvy, and your audience also grows and new needs come into play, both on your part and on your audience’s part.Now that I think about it, it sounds a lot like life.
The many facets of war have been showcased in a series of stunning pictures brought back to life after being expertly colourised. Incredible images show
Salty Sam’s Fun Blog for Children Number 175 The London Underground Hello Everyone When we go up to London to visit my Cockney cousin Smiley Sid, one of the things Bill and Bob love to do best, is travel on the Underground. We have old smugglers’ tunnels in Rocky Bay but they are not nearly as big as the tunnels under London. The cheapest and easiest way to travel around ...
The New Woman was always about mobility. She was about getting out of the house and creating a new life for herself. She was about to become visible and active. She was about change and new ways.
Contrary to her ancestors, the New Woman enjoyed athleticism. She engaged and was even encouraged to engage in sports and activities in the open.
This is a blog about Old European Culture.
In the 1920s, a new youth culture emerged. Not simply a marker of age anymore, youth became a state of mind, the adherence to a separate culture with its own values and attitudes.
The first case of Troubleshooter Mick Trabble involves a kidnapped leg and a lot of memories he doesn't want to rememeber
The flapper was the last and more mature incarnation of the New Woman. She was a free, ambitious, pleasure-seeking woman who wanted to be equal to men.
"Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander." - Quote by Yehuda Bauer
My latest Old Type Writer column on Jennifer Zartman Romano's popular newsblog Talk of the Town. http://talkofthetownwc.com/oldtypewriter This ...
It was a World War because it directly or indirectly affected nations and populations worldwide. Though less obvious than those of the Second World War, the Great War's repercussions were felt by people across the globe.
Queer women’s relationships were long considered non-existent. But in the 1920s, things started to change.
The New Woman was certainly born in the U.S., but manifestations of her appeared worldwide. And everywhere, she was a harbinger of modernity.
Modern wooden retreat designed by Ceschia E Mentil, located in Paluzza, Italy.
Before the 1900s, the concept of hemline didn't exist. Only when the length of women's skirts started to rise the hemline became a site of social debate.
Bobbed hair had been around even before the flapper, but it was only in the 1920s that, in spite of criticism, became more or less acceptable for a woman.
The ensemble separate was the distinctive fashion of the Gibson Girl. It was the first fashion that simplified the accepted women's clothes and made them lighter and more comfortable.
Meet some of the most talented and successful architects in the area, experts who understand the importance of a well-designed home. They can help make your dream home a reality.
In the 1910s, at the apex of the New Woman's historical arc and right amid the fight for civil rights, women became vampires.
I am fortunate to have a work were I work with living history. I work at a small viking village which lay in the buttom af the large Ringkøb...
An assignment for James Wyman Architects to document their design for a Corten steel and glass bicycle shelter at the Old Parsonage Hotel, Oxford. The overlapping diamond glazing was inspired by th…
Fourth installment in the Miss Kopp Series inspired to the true life of Constance Kopp, a lady deputy sheriff of the 1910s. Great, engaging historical novel
Pointillism -- a painting technique in which dots are used to create the illusion of a larger image -- was developed in the 1880s by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. However, a team of archaeologists led by New York University Anthropology Professor Randall White has now found evidence of this technique thousands of years earlier -- dating back about 38,000 years. The discovery is detailed online in the journal Quaternary International.
BROKEN TIME BLUES (Ed. by Jaym Gates & Erika Holt) Although published only in 2011, this anthology of dieselpunk astories is already a classic of the genre. What is Dieselpunk? A sibling to Steampunk.
OH, HELL...EVERYBODY JUST GO ADOPT ONE SHELTER ANIMAL...THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THEM...PROBLEM SOLVED...THIS IS RIDICULOUS. JUST ONE FOR EVERYBODY....
The New Woman successfully turned her respectability into a weapon in the fight for change and equality.
The first case of Troubleshooter Mick Trabble involves a kidnapped leg and a lot of memories he doesn't want to rememeber
A day at the beach in 1902s Chicago. Boys trying to get with girls. Girls being a lot smarter. From J.T. Farrell's collection "Chicago Stories)
