Religious symbols can be traced as far back as religions. Carpenters building cathedrals were not simply workers but worshippers of...

Figure 147 Au Roy, “To the King”, frontispiece of 1661 book published to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the death of French...

Tools and trades of the Bottle Family of Harrietsham, Kent, in the UK cover fourteen generations from the late 16th century to the...

“Fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months.” - Oscar Wilde, 1885 ​ Figure...

In the 13th century, the baker was not only making bread to feed the towns and villages throughout Europe. He was also a key character in...

“Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, […] its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures without...

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love” Sophocles (496-406 BC) Why do so many tools have a nicely...

“Arithmo de te pant epeoiken” (Everything is given order by numbers) - Pythagoras (569 BC – 475 BC) Numbers and dates often appear on...

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpet.” Voltaire...