IHASFEMR - Manimal Farm

Lubricating Labourers Littered England's Lowlands

usselo — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Did litter become a cargo cult?

Location Analysis: Clothall and Therfield Heath, Hertfordshire - Part Two

usselo — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Therfield Heath reveals the fabric of high society.

Location Analysis: Clothall and Therfield Heath, Hertfordshire

usselo — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Evidence of demolition of a 'ritual landscape'.

Location Analysis: Royston Cave - Part Four

usselo — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I ♥ pay-day.

Location Analysis: Royston Cave - Part Three

usselo — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Who put the 'Ick' into Icknield Way?

Location Analysis: Royston Cave - Part Two

usselo — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Which bits of Royston Cave were covered up?

Location Analysis: Royston Cave - Part One

usselo — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Royston's name-explainers ignore its most elite resident.

Ice Age Sites of Britain's Serpents - Part Four

usselo — Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Bewitched isn't what it used to be.

Ice Age Sites of Britain's Serpents - Part Three

usselo — Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Workplace locations of witches and serpents show how fake folklore hid England's food-distribution network.

Ice Age Sites of Britain's Serpents - Part Two

usselo — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Mind the gaps to uncover more sites of the medieval skin trade.

Before the Digestive Biscuit Game

usselo — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

One of the oldest elite games has just three rules: fuck it, cook it, eat it. (Contains sexually explicit imagery)

How Do You Get A.I. to Think For Itself? - Part Three

usselo — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Drop yet more hints.

How Do You Get A.I. to Think For Itself? - Part Two

usselo — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Drop more hints.

Dating the Intelligent Pig - Part Three

Sun, 03 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Castrating the Ram of God. (Contains sexually explicit imagery)

Dating the Intelligent Pig - Part Two

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Our past is behind us.

Dating the Intelligent Pig

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This could be your big date.

Away In a Manger - Part Five

usselo — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In the Beginning was the Word. And the Word was "Vellum".

Away in a Manger - Part Four

usselo — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Stations of the Cross stood on the domes of the rocks.

Away In A Manger - Part Three

usselo — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Logic and folklore explain enigmatic landscape features and suggest an origin for 'the Stations of the Cross'.

Away In A Manger - Part Two

usselo — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Hogback 'tombs' intimately connect four English words: 'stock', 'stocks', 'grave' and 'gravy'.

Away In A Manger - Part One

usselo — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Which religion starts with a husband and pregnant wife looking for shelter? And with an animal feeding trough?

The Furniture Chop

usselo — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

What does 'Gothic' really mean?

Sheela Na Gig Clues to Retail of the Past

usselo — Sat, 28 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Tourists have always loved Ireland. And tourists have always needed feeding.

The Georgian Birth of Christ - Part Three

usselo — Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A glamorous new religion needs glamorous old rituals.

Burghers in the Priors' Ovens

usselo — Sat, 21 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Excessively careful terminology helps uncover the real story behind the English 'Civil War'. And George Orwell's Animal Farm.

The International Blue Stone

usselo — Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Passed off as glacial erratics, bluestones were neither glacial, nor erratic. And they were only blue on special occasions.

Tithes That Bind

usselo — Wed, 11 May 2022 21:07:00 +0000

It's not like they don't tell you.

Experiments With Human Consciousness

usselo — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 09:52:00 +0000

Skillful trepanning. So skillful, the people who did it couldn't have done it.

Iron Age Butchers Dressed The Part

usselo — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

J.Lo's minidress helps us unravel one of England's Iron Age mysteries: where did the bodies go?

Fabrics From Fabricants

usselo — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Only one primate can do this.

Gas Stations of the Past - Part Six

usselo — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Royston Cave's carvings depict the Hertfordshire town's market days.

Gas Stations of the Past - Part Five

usselo — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Modern innovation turned balloons into airships. Modern alchemy developed new sources for lighter-than-air gas.

Eloi was South Holland, Lincolnshire

usselo — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

HG Wells' novel The Time Machine describes post-catastrophe humans being reared as cattle. It was based on real events in a real place.

Shop Signs of the Brothel-Keepers - Part Two

usselo — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Just a quickie.

Shop Signs of the Brothel-Keepers

usselo — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Pimps and brothel-keepers left their shop signs all over Britain and Ireland.

Mark of the Flesh Market

usselo — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

More than 10,000 of 12,500 market crosses were destroyed in Britain. Why?

Bone Warehouses For The Discerning DIYer

usselo — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Before there was expensive carbon fibre, there was cheap calcium fibre.

Britain's Forgotten Giants

usselo — Sat, 29 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Who ate jail-bait?