Tag: Twentieth century

• Thankful Villages: luck or size?

  

  About 55 parishes in England and Wales got every serviceman back from the First World War. Small parishes are nine times likelier to be on the list, but chance alone predicts hundreds more.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  Britain, Chance test, cities, Commemoration, England, First World War, Twentieth century, Wales, war

• Tekken 3 on the PS1: still brilliant

  

  I got my PlayStation out the other day and Tekken 3 blew me away. Here’s why it still holds up, with some pixel art I drew for the occasion.

  Tristan Hotham

  Games & other interests

  art, games, Leisure, Retro games, Twentieth century

• Kodachrome Magnificence: my grandfather’s slides

  

  A few of my grandfather’s Kodachrome slides, from town streets to coastlines and buildings abroad. The collection later became a book, Kodachrome Magnificence.

  Tristan Hotham

  Games & other interests

  art, Arts and culture, history, Towns and cities, Twentieth century

• WW1 Trucks and Logistics and Trucker Heroism

  

  There is great heroism in non front line tasks: take this story upon Mr Reginald Horace Northcote from WW2. Via- https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/90/a3228590.shtml My Father was in Italy during the war as a driver with the North Devon Yeomanry and was attached to the British Fourth Division. He saw the bombing of Monte Cassino and entered Rome as…

  Tristan Hotham

  Games & other interests

  First World War, history, Military history, Transport, Twentieth century, war