(1) Inside Brompton: a pioneering provider of folding bicycles for fifty years (Wallpaper)

(2) History has a rhythm and this is eerily relevant. A quote from The Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn:

“An anxious government expected violence. That November, as Westminster’s streets and lanes crawled with royal troops, a restive Parliament took up York’s demands. As Somerset’s apartments at Blackfriars were looted – York’s supporters, it was said, urged on an enraged crowd – Somerset himself was hustled to the safety of the Tower and locked up. But in the face of the Commons’ attempts to push through wide-ranging reforms, the regime closed ranks, swamping proposed legislation in amendments and obfuscation. While England’s establishment might have accepted the odd policy gesture, sweeping and destabilizing change was not what they had in mind. Besides which, there was something about Richard – the sense of high-minded public morality, perhaps, in which he cloaked his personal ambitions – that made them bristle. Their suspicions over York’s ultimate aims only intensified when Thomas Younge, an MP in the duke’s pay, tried to push a bill through Parliament formally recognizing York as the king’s heir presumptive. It didn’t succeed. The government closed ranks and, as the popular protests ran out of a steam, wrestled back the initiative. Henry VI released Somerset from the Tower.”

(2a) Katherine Swynford – fact and fiction. (The History Jar)

(2b) Signet Ring (Victoria & Albert Musuem)

(2c) The Public Paperfolding History Project

(3) Ray Bradbury Against Conformity (The Imaginative Conservative)

“Instead, he [good author] has an idea, something precious and magical, and he follows it, plays with it, nurtures it, and pursue its essence. In the end, good art will reveal a truth, but not always the truth an author originally desired to convey.”