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
Chemnitz historian Monja Schünemann brings to view previously unnoticed, invisible folding effects in Jean Fouquet’s “Melun Diptych”
A team of world-class archaeologists and students on the battlefield of Waterloo have discovered a rare complete skeleton of a soldier
Defining the Anthropocene – Radioactive traces in ocean materials mark the start of the modern age; a new study has been published on Scientific Reports
