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First ever 4K images of RMS Ttitanic

Posted August 21, 2019August 21, 2019by Over Lord

For the first time in 14 years, the RMS Titanic wreck has been revisited: a manned submersible reached the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean …

A year of anniversaries

Posted November 5, 2018November 4, 2018by Over Lord

It’s a strange year this one. If you ignore all of the stupidity that is going on in America and the UK. What I mean …

The Germans and Guernsey

Posted April 15, 2018April 15, 2018by Over Lord

A new featurette for The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society has arrived. This time we look at the history behind Guernsey’s invasion by …

Trump & Nixon

Posted January 13, 2017January 13, 2017by Over Lord

Thinking about what the next four years could hold not only for America but the whole world with a Trump presidency makes me think about …

TNMOC Celebrates Milton Keynes’ 50 birthday

Posted January 10, 2017January 10, 2017by Over Lord

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Milton Keynes as a new town, The National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park is hosting …

Margaret Hamilton and the Moon

Posted January 1, 2017January 1, 2017by Over Lord

Margaret Hamilton is a name that you won’t recognize. It’s a shame as she was in charge of the programming teams that designed, and built, …

The Breaking of Lorenz

Posted June 6, 2016June 6, 2016by Over Lord

Colossus veterans see the whole process at The National Museum of Computing For the first time ever, all the equipment used in making and breaking …

WITCH Portrait rediscovered in Manchester

Posted March 2, 2016March 1, 2016by Over Lord

This is an amazing find and only after a few months of searching. The lost Portrait of a dead WITCH (Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing …

Singing in the face of critism

Posted February 21, 2016November 26, 2017by Over Lord

A couple of days ago we get sent over some information about an upcoming film called Florence Foster Jenkins. That one will star Meryl Streep …

The Cenotaph turns 95

Posted November 11, 2015November 11, 2015by Over Lord

95 years ago the great and good gathered in Whitehall, London. This was a special time. It was the second anniversary of the Armistice that …

Ad astra per aspera. Remembering Apollo 1

End of the Pacific Rim?

Newt Scamander is coming home

Gods Of Egypt

Believe Again – Ghost returns to the big screen 30 years on

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