The Zimbabwe Bird
Since the start of April 2020, we have been virtually travelling the world, one country at a time to visit many of the planet’s unique UNESCO World Heritage Sites. During… Read More »The Zimbabwe Bird
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Collecting the Indus Valley Civilisation
Museum collections around the world contain cultural artefacts and natural history specimens acquired during the C19th and C20th from places now designated as World heritage Sites. Here at The Earth… Read More »Collecting the Indus Valley Civilisation
A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 21
150 World Heritage Sites are currently discoverable on our resource, each with a brief introduction and link to a short video connecting you with a sense of people and places.… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 21
Angkor Temples: Tangled Roots and Entangled Histories
Angkor Wat is an international icon, made famous by a heady cocktail of inherent character, French imperial and archaeological fascination, World Heritage Site Status, and a dose of Lara Croft… Read More »Angkor Temples: Tangled Roots and Entangled Histories
A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 20
Calling all geography teachers! Can you help? We would love to hear more about how you are planning to consider the impact of Covid-19 pandemic as a subject in the… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 20
Saving Our Planet’s Heritage
With the Covid-19 pandemic both limiting travel horizons and providing a powerful reminder of global community, we have spent the last few months on a virtual journey visiting a World… Read More »Saving Our Planet’s Heritage
A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 19
UNESCO is monitoring the closure of World Heritage Sites to the public during the pandemic. As of 3rd August, 34% are open, 40% closed and 26% partially open. However work… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 19
An Islander at Gallipoli
105 years ago, this week, British, Commonwealth, French and Turkish soldiers were in the midst of conflict at Suvla Bay on the Gallipoli Peninsula. One of these was Walter Ormonde… Read More »An Islander at Gallipoli
A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 18
Great to see the Department of Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee in the UK’s report on the impact of Covid-19 published. The sentiment expressed by its Chairman hits the… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 18
The Atlantic Merchants
Salt from Lymington (and elsewhere) became an integral part of a vast trading network across the Atlantic by the C18th. Driven by the wealthy merchant puppet masters in London and… Read More »The Atlantic Merchants
A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 17
This week, one of the sites we ‘visited’ was the Kuk Swamp archaeological site in Papua New Guinea. Covid-19 cases have increased rapidly in this country over the past few… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 17
African Fruit, Atlantic Fish, European Salt
Grains of salt from Lymington were combined with salt from many European countries to make salted cod (saltfish) in Newfoundland and the Northeast American Seaboard. In this story, our journey… Read More »African Fruit, Atlantic Fish, European Salt