Archive for: August 2015
Set on a headland high over the picturesque fishing port of Whitby, the hauntingly dramatic ruins of Whitby Abbey have been a source of artistic inspiration for centuries. To find out what makes the abbey so unique, we spoke to Members’ Panellist, writer, and serious Whitby enthusiast Lindsay Anne...
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In honour of the Great British Bake Off returning to our screens, Curator Michael Hunter gives a brief account of a quintessential British institution, afternoon tea, and gets to the soggy bottom of three cakes closely associated with Queen Victoria: Battenburg Cake, Victoria Sponge and Osborne Pudd...
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Seventy years ago the Trinity weapon test set into motion a series of events which made York Cold War Bunker necessary. In this post, Rachael Bowers, the Site Manager in York, explores the events of 1945 and how this prompted governments to invest in nuclear bunkers....
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