I feel like this was fate

A nice example of debris flight under a dust devil here bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A re-recording of the presentation I gave after the conference dinner for the Bluff Body Aerodynamics Conference at the start of August "The oldest world record - throwing the cricket ball", Some history, some sport and a bit of aerodynamics youtube.com/watch?v=0rjm-_…

A new blog post – Dudley and its Railways in 1868. A post describing the extensive rail services around Dudley in 1868 profchrisbaker.com/2024/08/25/dud…

I am now on Instagram – have a look at collections showing a walk around Oakham (instagram.com/c.j.baker2024/…); the roofs of Oakham High St (instagram.com/c.j.baker2024/…), Ghost signs (instagram.com/c.j.baker2024/…) and the graves in St Michael’s churchyard Lichfield (instagram.com/c.j.baker2024/…)

In case you missed this over the holiday period - it is rather lonely at the moment over there on Threads

In case you missed it over the holiday period

In case you missed this over the holiday period

In case you missed this over the holiday period

There's a corollary of this map from the same research in 1948 - if ever you need proof that Birmingham and the Black Country remained fundamentally different places well into the twentieth century, then this map of dereliction in the West Midlands is it

Reposting, in case you missed it over the holiday period

The Oak Farm (Crooked House) Mill and its watercourses. A post from 2023 describing the changes in the water supply system to the Oak Fam Mill in the 19th century, and speculations on the early form of the building that was to become the Crooked House profchrisbaker.com/2023/11/02/the…

The Fowler maps of Kingswinford parish of 1822 and 1840. A blog post from 2023 introducing a technical and statistical analysis of the 1822 and 1840 Fowler maps of Kingswinford parish, showing the spread of industry and community across the parish profchrisbaker.com/2023/02/24/the…

The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.

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The changing face of death. A blog post from 2023 introducing a statistical analysis of the interment records and monuments of St Michael’s churchyard in Lichfield from 1813 to 2012, looking at the changes in funerary patterns over that period.profchrisbaker.com/2023/02/24/the…

This is an excellent short explainer of how the climate is moving faster than our ability to predict the consequences. theconversation.com/the-climate-is… Thanks Prof Hayley J. Fowler for signposting it.