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The Nottingham Periodic Table

First posted on FB 08/03/2019 2019 is the International Year of the Periodic Table – 150 years since the publication of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table. The School of Chemistry is inviting suggestions for a Nottingham Periodic Table, where the usual element symbols stand for something or someone related to Nottingham. I have suggested S for ShawContinue reading “The Nottingham Periodic Table”

Author photo

First posted on FB 03/03/2019 Decided to go with the b&w version after all. Big thanks to photographer Ian Farrell for working with a somewhat camera-shy subject!

Bokus.com

First posted on FB 19/02/2019 And you can even pre-order in Swedish Krona! bokus.com

Now on Amazon too

First posted on FB on 17/02/2019 Now available to preorder on Amazon too…

Front cover

First published on FB 15/02/2019 Thank you to my publisher, The Book Guild, for my fab front cover – it feels to me like a mixture of Poirot and Bond which captures B D Shaw perfectly…

Now available for pre-order

First posted on FB 12/02/2019 Today marks the 121st anniversary of the birth of Brian Duncan Shaw. He grew up to become a chemistry lecturer, an explosives expert, a distinguished soldier and prisoner of war, the best shot in the Territorial Army, and star of stage and screen. As the author of his biography, IContinue reading “Now available for pre-order”

Dalton’s Garden

This greetings card is inspired by the element symbols devised by English chemist John Dalton in the early 19th century. In order to represent the atoms of each element and show how they combine to make molecules and compounds, he devised a set of symbols, each consisting of a circle around a distinct motif orContinue reading “Dalton’s Garden”

Now you know your A, B, G…

First published on FB 13/03/2020 This was supposed to be a periodic table devoid of letters and numbers, so why do we have here alpha, beta, gamma – the first three letters of the Greek alphabet? The element cadmium is named for Cadmean earth, an ore found near Thebes, the ancient Greek city founded byContinue reading “Now you know your A, B, G…”

Atomic theory

First published on FB 09/04/2020 In 1808 John Dalton published ‘A New Theory of Chemical Philosophy’ in which he set out his atomic theory, the foundation stone of our modern understanding of matter. In order to represent the atoms of each element and show how they combine to make molecules and compounds, he devised aContinue reading “Atomic theory”

Structural stuff

First published on FB 22/03/2022 It’s been a strange couple of weeks in which not a lot of stitching has got done, partly because there’s been a lot else to sort out, and partly because it feels a little like fiddling while Rome burns. Nevertheless I have a few already done but not yet postedContinue reading “Structural stuff”