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
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
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
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
Covid-19 raises and amplifies ethical questions for every citizen and every country in the world. Reflecting on some of the places visited just over the last 7 days. The Pacific… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 16
Salt made in Lymington was exported across the Atlantic Ocean to small European ports constructed close to the fishing grounds of Newfoundland. Here, its history intersects with the demise of… Read More »The Spirit of the Beothuk
Exploring the World Heritage Sites is a wonderful way to scratch the surface of our planet’s rich cultural and natural diversity. I have learnt so much on my travels to… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 15
From the Salterns of Lymington to the Grand Banks fisheries in Newfoundland, people carved out an existence from the sea and fortunes were made by those in the business of… Read More »Lymington Salt and Transatlantic Trade
The World Economic Forum has recently launched “The Great Reset” initiative: ‘a commitment to jointly and urgently build the foundations of our economic and social system for a more fair,… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 14
Huge thanks to students at Gosport and Fareham Multi-Academy Trust who have researched and contributed objects and stories for our World War 1 Explorer resource. Their discoveries have taken them… Read More »Peace and Conflict: World War 1 Explorer
Many brilliant women mathematicians and engineers helped make the NASA Apollo Programme of 1963-72 possible, as integral members of the team that sent astronauts to the moon. Yet many of… Read More »Hidden Stories: The Apollo Mission Women
The opening up of international travel that we are now experiencing must not be at the cost of people and the planet. The UN World Tourism Organisation has announced its… Read More »A Virtual Journey Around the World: Week 13