Plates from our archive on tees, long sleeves and hoodies, worn from a museum at night back to the first forests.
On screen
The Letter T Tee
$40
On screen
Sun Temple Tee
$40
On screen
Waterline Hoodie
$75
On screen
Torchlight Long Sleeve
$50
On screen
Mammoth Hoodie
$75
On screen
Deep Forest Long Sleeve
$50
Scenes are generated reconstructions; the prints are the real plates.
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Drag the rail, or use the arrows. Tap the one in front to take it down.
Choose a stretch of time and the catalogue below shows only its editions.
Every edition, back through time. Each one is printed after you order it.
Showing all 50 editions
Nothing from this era in that type yet.
Any plate can go on any garment in Make your own, or widen the search.
Why ours
Most history merch is a slogan on a cheap shirt. Ours starts with a true story, drawn as a plate and checked against its sources, then printed on things worth keeping.
Plate 01
Every era in the shop is in this one letter. Read it from the foot up.
It starts in the rock, with shells, fish and an ammonite in the swash of the letter.
Standing stones, and the people who raised them.
Walled towns climb the stem.
Gears, chimneys and an iron bridge.
A skyline at the crown.
The Letter T Tee $40
Five cases we've filmed, and the plates that go with them. Play a reel or drag through it, and its print comes up beside it.
Gallery 01 · Copper Age · Ötztal Alps
In 1991, two hikers found a body in the Alpine ice. It was more than five thousand years old, and in 2001 an X-ray showed how the man died.
Watch the filmNo plate from this film yet. The Pass is the nearest in place: a crossing of the Alps, where Ötzi died, though its story is Hannibal's army in 218 BC.
The Pass Tee$40
Gallery 02 · Ice Age · Across Eurasia
In the Ice Age, Homo sapiens shared the world with at least four other human lineages.
Watch the filmMammoth is the reel's opening shot. Torchlight isn't from this film: it's a painted cave from the same Ice Age.
Gallery 03 · 48 BC – 270s AD · Alexandria
Legend says Caesar's fire destroyed the Library of Alexandria. We follow a representative scroll, one like those the flames spared, and the case that slow neglect did what the fire couldn't.
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Gallery 04 · Cretaceous · Alberta, Canada
In 2011, a digger in a Canadian mine hit an armoured dinosaur in rock that had been seafloor. It was a land animal, and its last meal was still inside it.
Watch the filmNo plate from this film yet. Deep Forest is the closest: a forest of ferns and conifers, the kind of plants in its last meal.
Gallery 05 · 1st century BC · Antikythera, Greece
In 1900, sponge divers sheltering from a storm off a Greek island found a wreck full of statues. Beside them lay a lump of bronze with gears inside.
Watch the film
Sunken Tee$40The reels are excerpts from our films: reconstructions and illustrations, not footage. Alexandria is still being filmed; its reel is the fire from the film on our home page.
In the parcel
Every order comes with a printed card from us. Scan its code and you'll find the story card for the plate you chose: the plate on the front, the true story on the back, with our sources and what is still debated.
What arrives: your garment, a packing slip with our name on it, and the thank-you card. The story cards, one for each of the 20 plates, are online.
Sizing, printing, delivery, problems and payment. For anything else, see shipping and returns.
Every garment has a size guide on its page, with chest width and body length for each size. Art prints come in 12 × 16 and 18 × 24 in, and stickers from 2 to 6 in.
In full colour, after you order: straight onto the garment, on heavy matte paper for art prints, and on vinyl for stickers. Nothing sits in a warehouse.
No. They ship rolled and unframed, so you can frame them your way. The second photograph on each print's page shows both sizes to scale.
Checkout shows the shipping options and delivery estimate for your address before you pay.
See shipping and returns for how misprints, damage and lost parcels are handled.
Checkout runs on Fourthwall, our store and fulfilment partner. We never see your card details.
50 editions, printed to order on tees, long sleeves, hoodies, art prints, mugs and stickers. Every plate has a true story on its card.
