And Did Those Feet

This is a really fascinating story. Pre-biblical stories of a Flood  make it clear that the Ark was a massive coracle -half the size of a football pitch - clay tablets exist which give accurate dimensions which have clearly been scaled up from a normal-sizedcoracle. Irving Finkel has written the book and Channel 4 has a documentary in its Secret History series in which a replica is built. The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood by Irving Finkel – review | Books | The Guardian

The finding of any house during the Mesolithic is rare, one near Stonehenge is amazing but to call it a eco home is ridiculous.  The reuse of a tree-hole and the use of heated stones for central heating is impressive enough but to suggest by the use of the term 'Eco Home' that they were deliberately trying to lower their use of environmental resources is to look at the past through modern eyes. Surprised the Guardian fell for it. theguardian.com/uk-news  2015/oct/29  Archaeologists-discover-mesolithic-eco-home-near-stonehenge

 Courtesy of Ian Visits here are some interesting events in late Oct - early november Guided tours of the Albert Memorial - Kensington Gardens - The Royal Parks 17th-century-revolution in Book reading The king in the Car Park - Gresham Lecture Virtual Autopsy -  Death of a king  - the Old Operating Theatre Museum The Great Exhibition and Steam Punk

Interesting links on this site about  Design Thinking for Museums

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Interesting article about slums in Victorian London. Andrew Mearns, "The Bitter Cry of Outcast London: An Inquiry into the Condition of the Abject Poor" (1883) - W.T. Stead Resource Site

These pictures show how the BM has denuded its displays in order to place them in their new Exhibition about the Celts. They have shown no respect at all for the Permanent Galleries or for its visitors.  Over the summer, they just stripped the cases one by one and did not replace any of the objects or do anything with the cases, just left them as if with contempt for the visitors.  They have recently put up a couple of adverts to cover the case but this is months late,and even so not an adequate replacement for important objects. There are so many ways the museum could have used these spaces but they just left them bare, like a failing museum with no money. I'm a little bit shocked, and also disturbed that my three communications about this subject have yet to be addressed.