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
Scientists say a shipwreck off Patagonia is the Dolphin, a long-lost 1850s Rhode Island Whaler. Tree rings help identify remains some 10,000 miles from home
Oldest DNA from domesticated American horse lends credence to shipwreck folklore; the study has been published on PLoS One
A new book by Bruce Edelstein: Eleonora di Toledo and the Creation of Boboli Gardens, dedicated to the Florentine duchess 500 years after her birth
