I’m Steve. I work for a small company producing educational resources for schools, but I have always had an interest in history – especially the little stories and anecdotes that often don’t make it into the history that is taught in schools or the more formal history books.
The aim of this blog on this site is to bring some of this slightly odder history to a wider audience – and hopefully occasionally cause the reader to smile.
My choice of items will be fairly random; just things that have caught my interest. There might be a slight bias towards British history just because I was born and live in England. I’ve also got a science and engineering background so tales from those areas might also feature. Who knows?
A while ago I came across an old patent when I was researching a blog post about the invention of the vacuum cleaner. This set me off in another direction and resulted in the many different Patent Prints that are available from the shop section of the site. Before long the Patent Prints had been joined by a variety of historical poster prints.