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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
  • The Blackened Bones of Hadrian’s Wall: What Two Thousand Years of Northern Weather Has Done to Roman Stone

    The Blackened Bones of Hadrian’s Wall: What Two Thousand Years of Northern Weather Has Done to Roman Stone

    Environment, The World
  • Why Whitby’s Harbour Boats Are Painted the Colours They Are, and What Those Traditional Pigments Actually Did

    Why Whitby’s Harbour Boats Are Painted the Colours They Are, and What Those Traditional Pigments Actually Did

    Environment, The World
  • Soot, Shelter and Survival: How Centuries of Peat Smoke Coated and Preserved the Timber Frames of Scottish Blackhouses

    Soot, Shelter and Survival: How Centuries of Peat Smoke Coated and Preserved the Timber Frames of Scottish Blackhouses

    Environment, The World
  • The Crumbling Grandeur of Britain’s Seaside Piers: What Iron, Wood and a Century of North Sea Winters Actually Does to a Structure

    The Crumbling Grandeur of Britain’s Seaside Piers: What Iron, Wood and a Century of North Sea Winters Actually Does to a Structure

    Environment, The World
  • Soot, Tallow and Centuries of Grime: What the Blackened Beams of Britain’s Medieval Great Halls Are Actually Coated With

    Soot, Tallow and Centuries of Grime: What the Blackened Beams of Britain’s Medieval Great Halls Are Actually Coated With

    Environment, The World
  • Why the Painted Harbours of Cornwall Are Fading Faster Than Anyone Expected

    Why the Painted Harbours of Cornwall Are Fading Faster Than Anyone Expected

    Environment, The World
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