Jon Agar

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historian of modern science and technology

A modern concrete building with Néandertal
La Bouffia Bonneval, the cave at La Chapelle-aux-Saints where a Neanderthal burial was found in 1908
Great Willowherb. A big pink/purple four petalled flower with a white cross shaped stigma
A high speed Orangina bottle shaped car careers around a street corner
roadside spectators watch as a le Gaulois truck with a giant chicken head on top passes
Yellow eight petalled pointy flowers
Five petalled small pink flowers from low wiry heath-like narrow leaves
Childing Pink (Petrorhagia nanteuilli). A miniature forest of stems and each holding a papery top with pink petals, emerging from stones and sand
Big single very pale yellow pea flower among grass and its own leaves of hairy paired narrow leaflets
A video of Shoreham harbour, Sussex, with lightning flashes lighting up clouds perhaps once a second
Map of lightning flashes, covering much of Belgium
A group of botanists being shown an allotment
A spiky mass of green with very small white dots in middle which are the flowers
Gravel, with a succulent white flowered plant to the top left and succulent yellow flowered plant to the right. Like cushions
a grey sack that coveeed the head to the shoulders, with two black glass covers
A board that says ‘dress up like a bridge engineer’ with hard hats and high viz to wear
Map of mulberry harbour. Different parts are replaced with animals and plants, more of less reminiscent of the engineering or names for structures Of
Embroidered banner, teal blue background, gold red and blue leaf and palm shapes, on top of that golden Arabic writing
The whole map. Corsica is arranged at right angles. Around the island are painted effect details that look like other bits of paper, rulers, pencils and the like
A tower probably made of wood with a dragons head and wings. Out of the dragon’s mouth is fired a spear like projectile
Five pink flowers each with four petals in a cross shape at the end of a slightly hairy sprig
a tiny pink clover. Six pink flowers in a ball with some spikiness
The video is nearly entirely black, with occasional glimpses of a distant red head light. The sound is of many Manx Shearwaters calling, like a raucous haunted chicken farm
Doctor Who’s Zoe explains that cybernetics is about control and communication in animals and machines. From an episode featuring cybermen (The Wheel in Space)
purple sage flowers emerging from a dark green flowerhead
a mock Tudor river cottage
A note from Damian Green, then a member of the Number 10 Policy Unit (later a Conservative MP and minister) from 1994 from Number 10 files. He, sarcastically, quotes from a poorly drafted Department of the Environment document called 'Quality in town and country'. For example, 'Most of our day, every day, is spent in or around buildings', and 'Buildings do not stand alone in towns'.
Side of modern factory building. Black door with graffiti ghost)
Hoarding. Says in red letters ‘A future for the curious’. Plenty of graffiti tags
Siemens Brothers Telegraph Works, buildings from 1870s. Long white building with a hoarding that says “Faraday Works”. Large aerial above
Silvertown Tunnel Cycle Shuttle. Thank you for travelling with us today
Square green flowerheads, like a town clock
A woman with very long hair in a B/W photograph
Confusing picture of half cows, lights and me, in a hall of mirrors effect room
Milky Way galaxy above and a cow below