Lets move here.... No more three thousand character restrictions on PMs.... And the discussion can be 'moderated' by at least deletion ...
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Originally Posted by dodgy
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Originally Posted by craig_c
I should think so. I always thought England would be THE place for preservation the model boating artifacts and history.
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Toys are handled in the UK by the V&A section - Museum of Childhood. Their view is that models of the kind we are discussing are not toys... so they fall between two groupings...
Actually, modern-day England is surprising bad at remembering its history. Roger Bacon, the Franciscan friar (1213/4-1294) has a good claim to having invented the concept of 'Science' (The Wiki has a Catholic interpretation knocking this...) But at least you would think that some celebration of his 800th anniversary was due. There was a big one in 1913. But I have been chasing both Oxford and Cambridge - both History of Science and Philosophy departments and, though 'they'd like to do something', there's no budget and 'he's not really relevant today...'. |
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