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Trench art - vases made from artillery shells
By Christopher Proudlove©
French prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars incarcerated in the hulks of English prison ships made pictures from the straw of their bedding.
Using the mutton bones and scavenged from the kitchens, they made sets of […]

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by Christopher Proudlove
Loathe as I am to admit it, surfing the auction website eBay can be a fascinating way of spending the odd idle hour on a home computer.
One of my favourites is to key in, say, the name of the village where I was born, or, […]

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by Christopher Proudlove
I was never really that interested in jigsaw puzzles as a lad. They were the kind of thing you were reduced to tackling when chicken pox or some other childhood ailment meant you were confined to quarters and couldn’t cope with anything more strenuous.
Now I’m […]

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by Christopher Proudlove©
It all started during the Bronze Age, 1,000 years BC. Since then, among other things, we’ve been spending it, fighting with it, cooking in it and decorating our homes with it. Coins, canon and cooking pots are just three of a myriad of uses that […]

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