Who Is
Alastair?
Compass, quill, and archival papers
Archive Plate№ 13Timeline Explorer
Research Center · Chronology

The archive,
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Birth years, career milestones, documentation dates, and archive history — read together. Future visualizations will extend this view without changing the data beneath it.

Early 20th Century…–1945Mid-20th Century1946–1970Late 20th Century1971–1999Contemporary2000–now
  1. 1936birth
    Alastair MacLeod born
    Novelist · Scotland
  2. 1971birth
    Alastair Sim born
    Actor · United Kingdom
  3. 1976career
    Alastair MacLeod: Published first collection of stories.
    Career milestone · Archive A-00002
  4. 1976birth
    Alastair Humphreys born
    Adventurer · United Kingdom
  5. 1980birth
    Alastair Hunte born
    Curator & Archivist · United Kingdom
  6. 1988birth
    Alastair Reid born
    Software Engineer · Canada
  7. 1994career
    Alastair Sim: Professional stage debut.
    Career milestone · Archive A-00003
  8. 1999career
    Alastair MacLeod: Released his defining novel.
    Career milestone · Archive A-00002
  9. 2001career
    Alastair Humphreys: Set off on a round-the-world cycle.
    Career milestone · Archive A-00005
  10. 2006career
    Alastair Hunte: Founded the archive with a single documented entry.
    Career milestone · Archive A-00001
  11. 2006documentation
    Alastair Hunte documented in the archive
    Archive A-00001 · January 2006
  12. 2006documentation
    Alastair MacLeod documented in the archive
    Archive A-00002 · November 2006
  13. 2006archive
    Archive milestone: Archive Founded
    A single observation — that surprisingly few people are named Alastair, and a surprising number of them are worth reading about — becomes a small, deliberately-kept collection.
  14. 2009documentation
    Alastair Sim documented in the archive
    Archive A-00003 · March 2009
  15. 2009archive
    Archive milestone: Collection Expanded
    The archive quietly doubles, then doubles again. The first international entries are added and the Primary Field taxonomy is introduced.
  16. 2010career
    Alastair Sim: Breakthrough film role.
    Career milestone · Archive A-00003
  17. 2010career
    Alastair Reid: Released first open-source project.
    Career milestone · Archive A-00004
  18. 2012career
    Alastair Humphreys: Named National Geographic Adventurer of the Year.
    Career milestone · Archive A-00005
  19. 2014documentation
    Alastair Reid documented in the archive
    Archive A-00004 · July 2014
  20. 2014archive
    Archive milestone: Correspondence Begins
    Readers begin submitting Alastairs of their own. A parallel folder of submissions is opened; a review process, of sorts, takes shape.
  21. 2016career
    Alastair Hunte: Formalised the accession system and editorial review process.
    Career milestone · Archive A-00001
  22. 2016documentation
    Alastair Humphreys documented in the archive
    Archive A-00005 · May 2016
  23. 2019career
    Alastair Reid: Founded a small independent studio.
    Career milestone · Archive A-00004
  24. 2019archive
    Archive milestone: Original Website Lost
    The original hosting environment quietly disappears. Much of the archive survives only in backups, printed clippings, and the curator's notebooks.
  25. 2024archive
    Archive milestone: Archive Recovered
    Work begins on reassembling the archive from surviving materials. Each restored entry is re-verified against public sources before it is returned to the collection.
  26. 2026career
    Alastair Hunte: Rebuilt the archive from the ground up while preserving its original personality.
    Career milestone · Archive A-00001
  27. 2026archive
    Archive milestone: Digital Restoration Completed
    The third edition of the archive is released — a considered rebuild in the style of a museum catalog, with formal Archive IDs, documentation sources, and Curator's Notes on every record.