Although the above picture, taken from the internet, is of an allotment site near Middlesbrough allotment sites in Hull and Barton are well-used and, generally, well looked after. Each allotment site has its own organising committee and doubles some are members of the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners. Allotment sites are also supported […]

With the ‘History of not very nice things’ W.E.A. short course now having finished and with generally positive feedback attention now turns to the second five-week course in November and early December. The ‘History of not very nice things Part 2’ has been cancelled but in its place is being advertised a course entitled ‘A

The above image is of fossilised snake remains in sedimentary rock laid-down well over 100 million years ago. However it seems that after the last Great Extinction of geological time, which caused the demise of the dinosaur dominated world, about 58 million years ago the species of snake and their populations multiplied. The above title is

The fourth theme of the current WEA class at Barton, History of not very nice things, is Technological Change. Of course many would argue that this is not a ‘not very nice thing’, but rather an opportunity, a challenge but my line of thought is that rapid technological change can undermine society. Firstly I am

Late yesterday afternoon visited Pearson Park, Beverley Road, Hull to take some pictures to support my current main research project ‘History of Hull Parks and Cemeteries’. This was the first of Hull’s public parks and in many ways set a yardstick by which the provisions for later ones were funded. Created on land in the 1860s, then

Poverty, the third topic in my W.E.A. short course entitled History of not very nice things, is to take place this evening. Have some discussion points for early in the session e.g. is poverty relative?, what defines a state of poverty? and then intend to work back in time rather than forward. Starting with Child