Historical violence in Tasmania: Victorian collector traded human Aboriginal remains and Tasmanian tigers for scientific accolades
Napoleon, a film by Ridley Scott, is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise of the iconic Napoleon Bonaparte
Early whaling, before the 19th century, was enough for at least two species to disappear completely from European waters
The oldest hunter-gatherer basketry in southern Europe, from the Cueva de los Murciélagos and dated to the Mesolithic period, identified
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
A new study, published in PLoS ONE, uncovers impact of 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic on infant health, in Switzerland
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
Health consequences of child labor in 19th century England: skeletal remains provide insights into the harm of poverty and forced labor in children
True crime in 19th century Norway; Gjest Baardsen was one of Norway’s most notorious criminals in the 19th century and inspired a number of songs