Writing about visual culture from Alistair Hall at We Made This – We Made This

If you’re over 50, you might remember that you were once able to return your used glass bottles – say Lucozade, or R White’s Lemonade – to the shops, to get back a small deposit (about 2 1/2p back in the ’70s), which was included in the purchase price. You might also have had your milk delivered in glass bottles. You’d leave the empties outside your front door at the end of the day for the milkman to collect in the morning (on an electrically powered milk float – was everything better in the…

“Two households, both alike in dignity,In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.From forth the fatal loins of these two foesA pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;Whose misadventured piteous overthrowsDo with their death bury their parents’ strife.The fearful passage of their death-mark’d […] The post Romeo + Juliet at 30(ish) appeared first on We Made This.

It’s cake time! This month marks the 20 year anniversary of the We Made This blog, which I began writing on 6 March 2006.  The blog originally lived on the Typepad blogging platform (which existed from 2003 to 2025) at wemadethis.typepad.com. Then in June 2010 I migrated it across to my new website, wemadethis.co.uk/blog, where […] The post We Made This blog – 20 years appeared first on We Made This.