Sometimes pulp fiction tells you so much more than academic papers can. As in the first pages of John Wyndham's classic Sci-Fi novel "The Day of the Triffids" from 1951. By ways of a lead by a friend in Brussels to an interview with British scholar Dorian Lynskey...
Extreme Weather and politics in Britain in 1952 as seen in the series The Crown. This is from Season 1, episode 4, released in 2016.
The Thames Barrier was installed in the 1980s to protect London from extreme floods from the North Sea. It's design make it probabyl to most stylish flood protection structure ever and reflects the era of it's planning, the 1970s. The Thames Barrier has been closed...
John Martin’s oil painting, acquired by Tate Gallery London in 1869, imagines the extent of the disaster that famously beset the sister cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum when the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted on 24 August AD 79.The painting was first exhibited in...
Last image from Gustave Doré's Book "London - A Pilgrimage" (1872). Detailed Information. France; 19. Century; Christian; Illustration; City: London
