Originally published March 11, 2009 Black and white photographs that have been stored in a shoebox for sixty or seventy years may be as clear and unfaded today as they were the day they were made. The reason is that the image in black and white photographs is made of stable silver compounds protected by … Read more
Originally written and published February 1, 2009 by Tamara Colloff-Bennett Towards the end of the eighteenth century when the famous classics author Jane Austen made two long visits to Bath and then when she lived in the city from 1801 to 1806 after her father the Reverend George Austen retired to live in the area, … Read more
Originally published December 22, 2008 The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is a conservation organisation dedicated to saving wetlands for wildlife and for people. It was founded in 1946 by Sir Peter Scott, a naturalist and an artist. He bought the first wetland site for the trust and for many years he hosted a TV … Read more