Friday 30 January 2015

A Language Family Tree


language map

found here

Check out this great language tree in the Guardian! There are more detailed pictures if you follow the link. I just checked a link between Finnish and Turkish an American/Finish friend, living in Istanbul, had told me about. Love playing language detective...

Monday 19 January 2015

Make Life Worth Living

The harsh reality of poor housing in sixties Britain. An exhibition at the Science Museum




by Nick Hedges (National Media Museum, Bradford)

Looking at these pictures, my only thoughts are: And this was in the late sixties?