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  • How the Black Houses of the Outer Hebrides Were Never Truly Black: The Surprising Palette Hidden Beneath the Soot

    How the Black Houses of the Outer Hebrides Were Never Truly Black: The Surprising Palette Hidden Beneath the Soot

    Environment, The World
  • The Painted Caves of Cheddar: What Prehistoric Pigments Applied to Somerset Rock Tell Us About Humanity’s Oldest Urge to Coat a Surface

    The Painted Caves of Cheddar: What Prehistoric Pigments Applied to Somerset Rock Tell Us About Humanity’s Oldest Urge to Coat a Surface

    Environment, The World
  • Tallow, Resin and Sea Air: The Lost Coating Traditions of the Cornish Pilchard Fleet

    Tallow, Resin and Sea Air: The Lost Coating Traditions of the Cornish Pilchard Fleet

    Environment, The World

    Tracing the forgotten fish-oil and pine-resin treatments that protected Mevagissey and Newlyn luggers, and whether any survive on the Cornish coast today.

  • The Greening of Britain’s Canal Locks: What Two Centuries of Algae, Lime and Slow Water Are Doing to Cast Iron and Stone

    The Greening of Britain’s Canal Locks: What Two Centuries of Algae, Lime and Slow Water Are Doing to Cast Iron and Stone

    Environment, The World
  • The Amber Walls of Edinburgh’s Old Town: Why Sandstone Turns That Particular Gold and What It Is Actually Coated With

    The Amber Walls of Edinburgh’s Old Town: Why Sandstone Turns That Particular Gold and What It Is Actually Coated With

    Environment, The World
  • The Invisible Tide Mark: What the Salt Line Left on Britain’s Flood-Damaged Churches Actually Consists Of

    The Invisible Tide Mark: What the Salt Line Left on Britain’s Flood-Damaged Churches Actually Consists Of

    Environment, The World

  • Hemp: Britain’s Forgotten Crop Is Quietly Coming Back

    Environment
  • Waxwings, Waxy Berries and the Protective Coatings That Help Britain’s Winter Hedgerows Survive the Cold

    Waxwings, Waxy Berries and the Protective Coatings That Help Britain’s Winter Hedgerows Survive the Cold

    Environment, The World
  • The Rust-Red Walls of Ironbridge: What Victorian Industry Left Behind on Britain’s Most Famous Cast-Iron Structure

    The Rust-Red Walls of Ironbridge: What Victorian Industry Left Behind on Britain’s Most Famous Cast-Iron Structure

    Environment, The World
  • What the Stained Ceiling of York Minster Tells Us About Eight Centuries of Candle Smoke, Damp and Survival

    What the Stained Ceiling of York Minster Tells Us About Eight Centuries of Candle Smoke, Damp and Survival

    Environment, The World
  • Soot-Blackened and Storm-Hardened: The Strange Resilience of Hebridean Dry-Stone Blackhouses Left to the Elements

    Soot-Blackened and Storm-Hardened: The Strange Resilience of Hebridean Dry-Stone Blackhouses Left to the Elements

    Environment, The World
  • Why the Oldest Gravestones in English Churchyards Are Sometimes Better Preserved Than Those Carved a Century Later

    Why the Oldest Gravestones in English Churchyards Are Sometimes Better Preserved Than Those Carved a Century Later

    Environment, The World
  • The Blackened Bones of Britain: Why Ancient Charred Timber Is Making a Quiet Comeback

    The Blackened Bones of Britain: Why Ancient Charred Timber Is Making a Quiet Comeback

    Environment, The World
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