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The Friday Digest 03/10/14

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THP Friday digest

This week's update features Victorian exercise regimes, Cern in sixty seconds and the Everest diaries of mountaineer Edward Norton.


Illustration from 19th Century exercise book

 

* A number of Victorian 'keep-fit' exercises and gym regimes have been revealed and they aren't too different from programmes that people follow today ... 


Birthday cake and balloons


* The onward march of the century makersFigures from the Office for National Statistics show that there are now 13,780 people aged 100 or more in the UK, an increase of 70 percent over the last decade.


Boy and stethoscope

 

* The stethoscope revolutionised the way doctors interacted with their patients when it was introduced in the early nineteenth century but is there an electronic revolution happening in the doctor's bag


Amphibious scooter  The eccentric inventions of years gone by include what appears to be an early version of a videophone, an amphibious Lambretta scooter (seen here), a Land Rover hovercraft and a bicycle with wings. Amphibious scooter  Photograph: Easyart/PA


An archive of wacky British inventions – in pictures


Horse sculpture in Tewkesbury The roundabout sculpture commemorates the Battle of Tewkesbury

 

* The 'battle horse' roundabout in Tewkesbury has been named the 'best in Britain' this week by the UK Roundabout Appreciation Society.


Queen Victoria, 1887 (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)


 * How well do you know the queens of England


Robert Scott


* A London woman is seeking help in tracing R.C. Scott, a Northern Ireland war hero whose possessions were found in a trunk in her house. Can you help? 


Meredith Towne


Knitting now and then: women and the First World War


First World War

 




The princes in the Tower in an 1878 painting (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)


 


Linda Stratmann
 
 
*  'I can report that the yeast dumplings in white sauce, with chopped parsley substituting for arsenic (Eiza Fenning 1815), were unexpectedly good' - Linda Stratmann tries some murderous recipes ...


NIRELAND-BRITAIN-UNREST


What to do if you find a dead body (besides scream). 



The coin featured Augustus with a laureate on one side and a heifer on the other; it was one of 22 ever made, of which only seven are in private collections (c) DixNoonanWebb/BNPS



 
Henry VIII

 

 

Cern at 60, in 60 seconds 

* Cern at 60 in 60 seconds ...

 


* A fascinating look at the making of Gateshead Then & Now book cover.


'Motor Smash (Vallance & Martin)' Station Street, Lewes 1913

 

* The world's oldest photography studio opens its archives.


Archaeologists inspect a female figurine inside a recently discovered, fourth-century B.C. tomb, in the town of Amphipolis, northern Greece on Sept. 7. The occupant of the tomb is unknown, but there's speculation that it could be someone who was closely linked to Alexander the Great. (c) Greek Culture Ministry/AP


* Who is buried in the 'magnificent' tomb from Ancient Greece?


African Elephants are under threat from poaching and habitat destruction (ALAMY)


A shocking report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has found that more than half of the world's animals have vanished since 1970


Group portrait of expedition to climb Everest in 1924

 

Everest diaries of mountaineer Edward Norton are to be published.  


HMS Erebus

 

A shipwreck uncovered beneath the icy wastes of northern Canada has been identified as the long-lost HMS Erebus.


Roger Hudson visits the Belfast shipyard in 1911, where the Titanic and her sister ships, Britannic and Olympic were constructed.


In focus: Titanic's sisters

 

Robert the Bruce Statue in Stirling, Scotland taken July 2012 (c) Ally Crockford


* The journey of one of the greatest war leaders of medieval Europe


Hercule Poirot


* Poirot or Scheherazade


World's oldest clown


* The world's oldest clown has passed away aged 98


Egyptian workmen’s absences, circa 1250 BC


* Six of the most important lists in history.

 

An eighteenth-century clock

 

* Mirror year: how old are you really?  


This map will change how you see the world


* The map that will make you change how you see the world ...


Colleen Higgs shares the twenty-nine errors a publisher can make … and counting.


* Amazon launches Kindle Unlimited in the UK  and indie authors have shared their doubts over Amazon's terms.  


  Which history and publishing stories have you enjoyed reading this week?


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