Shipboard cannon found off Marstrand on the Swedish coast may be the oldest in Europe; the study has been published in The Mariner’s Mirror
St Helena’s “liberated” Africans came from West Central Africa between northern Angola and Gabon, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Human Genetics
The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language: a new ‘verbal treasure trove’ dictionary captures nuances and uses of Shakespeare’s words
A new study, published in PLoS ONE, uncovers impact of 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic on infant health, in Switzerland
Ancient DNA reveals an early African origin of Cattle in the Americas, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports
Recovering family history for millions of African Americans: Kendra Taira Field is named chief historian for the 10 Million Names project
Ethical challenges of studying historical DNA that connects living people to enslaved and free African Americans at Catoctin Furnace, an early ironworks (18th–19th century)
Spatial and social inequalities in the face of death. Pilot research on cholera epidemics in Poznań of the second half of the nineteenth century
The Self Portraits Rooms at the Uffizi Galleries: twelve rooms show six hundred years of art history in the form of self-portraits and portraits
The Danish colonisation of Greenland in the 18th century was in part driven by the desire to re-establish contact with early Norse settlers that vanished from the island in the course of the 15th century
