Light unravels in charmingly mysterious ways when it pours through the choicest of lamps. The fascination only heightens when the lamps carry decades and centuries of history with them. A new ...

At first glance, the miner’s lamp might seem a surprisingly drab and utilitarian nomination as the most important object in Welsh history. Appearances can be deceptive, though: there are few objects ...

This year marks the bicentenary of the invention of the Davy Lamp. But should credit for the first miners’ safety lamp be shared? Almost two hundred years ago, on 9 November 1815, Humphry Davy, ...