Tag: history

Beatrice: The Cadbury Heiress Who Gave Away Her Fortune

  • February 25, 2012 at 9:38 am

  • Yesterday I met Fiona Joseph, an interesting lady who has written and published a book about Beatrice Cadbury. ‘She’s written a book about who?’ Yes, I don’t remember hearing of her either, and I was brought up a Quaker. Beatrice Cadbury was a Cadbury heiress who, it seems, took her principles in a different direction to her [...]

The Pen Room

  • June 19, 2009 at 8:59 am

  • I’ve been meaning to go for ages, and on Saturday I finally went to Birmingham’s pen museum. Nikki Pugh steered me there. I’m not sure I’d have found it otherwise. It’s one of those incredible places that sit politely out of the limelight but are full of cool stuff: in this case, nibs, nibs, nibs, [...]

Bookmarks for 3 January 2009 from 21:08 to 23:52

  • January 4, 2009 at 12:01 am

  • These are my links for 3 January 2009 from 21:08 to 23:52: The history of PC hardware, in pictures – An interesting pictoral history of firsts: trackball, mouse, laptop,PC, Apple, RAM, disk drive, etc. Test new html5 elements – Bruce Lawson's test page of new html elements that can be used right now. Digbeth is [...]