Lipstick

 29 July is National Lipstick Day. The idea of reddening your lips is very old but a man named Maurice Levy invented lipstick push-up sticks in tubes in 1915. This is my history of make up.

The Whitechapel Murders

 A random thought: I watched an interview of the son of one of Peter Sutcliffe’s victims. It was very moving. He objects to the title ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ because it glamourises the murderer. I decided to stop using the name ‘Jack the Ripper’. It was probably invented by a journalist who wrote an anonymous letter pretending to be the murderer. I feel it glamourises the murderer so in future I am going to call him the Whitechapel murderer.

Sutcliffe was a nobody who only achieved fame or notoriety by killing innocent people. The Whitechapel murderer was almost certainly the same. If people passed him in the street they probably wouldn’t have given him a second glance. The banality of evil. We need to stop glamourising assholes. That is my two cents.

The French landed on the Isle of Wight in 1545

 A blog post about the French landing on the Isle of Wight in 1545 https://maryrose.org/blog/historical-stories/the-tudor-militia/ 

Nunavut Day

 9 July is Nunavut Day (Nunavut is a territory of Canada created in 1999). Facts about Nunavut.

Midsummers Day

 A look at the folklore of Midsummer's Day 

What's on at Farnham Museum

There is a lot going on at Farnham Museum:

Our 'what's on' page: https://farnhammaltings.com/museum/whats-on Festival of Archaeology event: https://farnhammaltings.com/events/festival-of-archaeology Building Tours: https://farnhammaltings.com/events/willmer-house-building-tours Postcard exhibition: https://farnhammaltings.com/events/postcards-through-time Dye craft exhibition: https://farnhammaltings.com/events/roots-of-colour Hops Heritage Open Day event: https://farnhammaltings.com/events/farnham-hops

Television

 I wrote a brief history of television