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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

    How abandoned blackhouses on Lewis and Harris have survived decades of Atlantic rain and frost, and what their soot layers and lime-washed walls still

  • 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 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
  • Why Dartmoor’s Ancient Clapper Bridges Have Survived Eight Centuries of Rain, and What Their Stone Surface Holds as a Secret

    Why Dartmoor’s Ancient Clapper Bridges Have Survived Eight Centuries of Rain, and What Their Stone Surface Holds as a Secret

    Environment, The World
  • The Surprisingly Adventurous History of Ochre: Humanity’s First Protective Coating

    The Surprisingly Adventurous History of Ochre: Humanity’s First Protective Coating

    Environment, The World
  • The Green Patina of Wales: Why Copper-Roofed Buildings in Cardiff and Caernarfon Are Actually Getting Stronger With Age

    The Green Patina of Wales: Why Copper-Roofed Buildings in Cardiff and Caernarfon Are Actually Getting Stronger With Age

    Environment, House and Home, The World
  • The Lotus Effect: How a Swamp Flower Solved the World’s Biggest Coating Problem

    The Lotus Effect: How a Swamp Flower Solved the World’s Biggest Coating Problem

    Environment, The World
  • From Fjord to Front Door: How Scandinavian Painting Traditions Are Changing How We Protect Wood in the UK

    From Fjord to Front Door: How Scandinavian Painting Traditions Are Changing How We Protect Wood in the UK

    Environment, House and Home
  • Lichen: The World’s Most Patient Painter and What It’s Trying to Tell Us About Air Quality

    Lichen: The World’s Most Patient Painter and What It’s Trying to Tell Us About Air Quality

    Environment, The World
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