Another Bog body that I find fascinating is ‘Grauballe’ man. When I first read ‘The Bog People’ by Professor PV Glob, this was the body that frightened me the most. Over time though I don’t seem to see the horror any more – just the near perfect preservation of a man who was murdered allContinue reading “More Bodies from the Bog: Grauballe Man”
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Buy one; get another, then another until eventually you get the Sir John Soane’s Museum
What a remarkable place! What a remarkable man, son of a Bricklayer (b. 1753) Sir John Soane, Architect turned out to be! There are also drawings, prints, furniture, clocks and of course books … the list is endless! What a great time Soane must have had collecting them all. He was continually building onContinue reading “Buy one; get another, then another until eventually you get the Sir John Soane’s Museum”