2015-08-04 (Tuesday)

Links

1. ukmade | Made in Great Britain – recommendations of quality products made in the British Isles

   A blog with some quite exhaustive posts on different types of goods and which companies make their products in the UK.

2. Status Board 2

   New major version of Panic’s iPad dashboard app. I’ve never quite got into using v1, although I love the idea.

3. Teju Cole (@_tejucole) • Instagram photos and videos

   I’m really enjoying his series of images about the Mona Lisa.

4. Steven Mithen reviews ‘Earth’s Deep History’ by Martin Rudwick · LRB 30 July 2015

   On the history of how we’ve explained the history of Earth and life on it. (Also subscribers only)

5. Colin Kidd reviews ‘The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century’ [and more] · LRB 30 July 2015

   On the history of describing English history, and how “England”, and what makes it English, has changed. (Subscribers only)

6. Steven Shapin reviews ‘Empire of Tea’ by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger · LRB 30 July 2015

   Interesting history of tea, and the changes around it over the centuries. “By the 1910s, eight thousand [tea leaf] rolling machines had replaced the hand-labour of 1.5 million workers.” (Subscribers only)

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