Try ordering a copy of Earth Platinum from your local bookshop and they’ll get quite the surprise. There were only 31 printed and the price tag is $100,000 USD. It would also take quite the delivery truck at 1.8 metres tall and weighing 150 kilograms. I viewed this copy ten years ago …
Encountered at lifesize, the unrealistic nature of these aspirational bodies is impossible to ignore. This special edition scaled-up version Barbie doll has a 21-inch waist, with a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.65. Were she a living woman, her body would fall into the underweight range. She is accompanied by …
This is the only known oil painting of Mary Seacole – once an almost unknown nurse from the Crimean War, but now thankfully a key part of the education curriculum in the UK …
This is one of the last coins made in Britain before the Romans arrived, in this case by a king of the Iceni (who was also husband of the warrior queen known to us as Boudica). It’s clear that this silver coin, issued between 35 BC and 45 BC, was made …
The outsides of football stadiums are generally pretty dull affairs – but at Manchester City’s ground, they’ve used old photographs from the club’s history not only decorate the …
Washington DC is a planned city. And I love me a bit of civic planning. Growing up in the UK, where cities are mostly accidents and mishaps thrust together into one mishmash of buildings and people, the idea of planning something from scratch …
Today in 2012 the Costa Concordia ran aground on the Italian island of Isola del Giglio. I remember the newspaper front cover from a few days later, where someone cheeky at …
