Imagine a small home with an upstairs and downstairs. We'll learn the Geologic periods round this home.

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The most recent Geologic period is called 'quaternary' – this is the period during which modern humans emerged. We'll plant an image to help us remember this at the front door of the house.

Quaternary sounds like 'quartering', and we could imagine someone in the hall cutting a huge quiche in quarters. The more vivid and ridiculous the image the better. Quartering a quiche equals quaternary.

That's at the front door. We'll keep going, next upstairs. On the staircase, someone's having a Perm (Permian). At the top of the stairs, on the landing, there's a man dining on coal. He's carboniferous. His date is eating Devon custard (Devonian). Trans Mac Serial Key. The two of them give us Carboniferous, Devonian.

In the bedroom, a child is being Silly (Silurian), while her brother is Ordering her around Viciously (Ordo-vician). In the bathroom, two parents argue. The one with a degree from Cambridge (Cambrian) is mocking the one from an Edwardian University (Edia-caran). The house is full of maniacs.

So much the better for the memory. Read this story once over, making sure to imagine each event vividly. Then test yourself through it. After doing that, you should be able to recall the sequence - Quaternary, Neogene, Paleogene, Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic, Permian, Caboniferous, Devonian, Silurian, Ordovician, Cambrian, Ediacaran.

You'll no doubt slightly misspell some of them, but the order should be there. Interesting features of this kind of heavily spatial memory are that it is random-accessible (you can think about what comes after Carboniferous, for example); that it can be traversed in either direction (you can recall what comes before Paleogene); that intuitive distance between points is present (Quaternary is miles closer to the present than Silurian) and that extra information can be added to the points, by attaching other objects to the space. The images are best created oneself, of course. Consider those above to be a demonstration. For timelines, histories, book structures and essay plans the 'memory palace', as this is sometimes called, is a wonderfully simple way to encode lengthy sequences speedily.

The process can also be done in real life, as an actual walk. This works tremendously with classes, where everyone gets to participate in creating a shared narrative. Chris Edwards at Bishop David Brown School does whole-class memory walks to learn the structure of books, and it works amazingly well. If you want to experience this kind of live memory-walk, incidentally, I'm doing a few of these at the event in London this weekend.