Category Archives: Calendar History
Armistice Day: Bells Ring Out One Hundred Years on
This Sunday 11th November, in cities, towns and villages, bells will once again ring for peace, beginning with a slow toll in memory of those who died, and then ringing the changes to produce the joyful peal that is such a distinctively British sound.
A Calendar within a Calendar
A 30m high step pyramid dominates this world-renowned site, within a cluster of pyramids and temples, representing an astronomical calendar where the total number of levels, terraces, platforms and stairways add up to 365.
Can you see a calendar in your mind?
Calendar Synaesthetes are a small minority of people who can see the year, months and days quite clearly in their mind. Scanning forwards and backwards through the months, just like an actual calendar, dates are visualised in many ways. Read more about this interesting phenomenon.
Dates and time – from sundials to water clocks
From sundials to water clocks, find out we told the time before the sun was a guide. Water clocks or klepsydras were used as far back as 1500 BC and there are even a few fun examples of water clocks left to discover today………..
Saying Goodbye after 50 years at Rose Calendars
Earlier in June we said farewell to someone who has been with our company for half a century. We bid farewell to our colleague John after 50 years of service with the company.
