Astronomers confirm past solar eclipses in northern Japan first mentioned in indigenous folklore and historical documents
Novel insights into the daily lives of early industrial women workers: what hand skeletons tell about working in the 19th century
‘Virtual autopsy’ identifies a 17th century mummified toddler, who – though born to a powerful family – was malnourished, hidden from the sun and sick with pneumonia
Cartographic methods show that the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was used as an inter-oceanic passage in the 16th century
Welsh american abolitionist, Rev Robert Everett, rediscovered by the American Professor in Wales, Jerry Hunter of Bangor University
What Can Furbearers Past and Present Teach Us About Future Conservation Efforts? Consequences of mass harvesting, ecosystem change
Farmers’ youth were to “Norwegianise” Oslo through folk dance and theatre, a doctoral thesis from the University of Oslo
The SS Mesaba, the ship which sent an iceberg warning to the RMS Titanic, before the ocean-liner sank, has been identified lying in the Irish Sea
India’s troubled history of monsoon droughts of the last millennium revealed by stalagmites and historical documentary sources
The Draughtman’s Contract, directed by Peter Greenaway, remastered by the BFI National Archive. Elaborate, stylised, enjoyable, spiteful and mysterious