Up until the early 900’s, the female swimsuits did not exist, or better, the ladies beach outfit even if lighter and less bulky than everyday clothes, it was still a sort of…
It is called “Voyager Le Corbusier” and it is the book handled by the architect Jacob Brillhart, who gathered drawings and watercolours from the collection of the young Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, later become…
It happens sometimes that an important discovery is result of something random or a stroke of luck. Extremely lucky was Michael Richardson, librarian of the Special Collection from Bristol University, who was…
Charles Ebbets: the Photographer/Equilibrist who photographed the building of the Rockefeller Center
If the picture right below was recent, probably it would be an edited pic, hence we would end up noticing the details: the two tone shoes, so old fashioned; the position of…
In 1784 Marie Anne Smythe Fitzherbert was already a two times widowed woman, and she was just 27 years old. Woman with some far noble kinship, Mary is still a common person,…
182 km (113 miles) divide the city of Bristol and Marlborough, in Southern England. It is a distance that, nowadays, can be covered in a short time by car or train. In…
The 15th of June 1215 is a historical date: John King of England signed the Magna Carta, a document that, although in the form of a concession, it would recognise some limitation…
The salt, from the dawn of times, has always had a fundamental economical role because indispensable to the preservation of food. The ancient Romans knew that very well and, probably not randomly,…
Iceland in the 17th century was certainly not a pleasant place where to conduct a peaceful existence: natural disasters and difficult climate, constant pirate raids, an economical unbalance between the social classes.…
It has been around a century and much has been done since the birth control and the abortion induction was practiced in the US with a product that today is used to…