Space travel may seem like a modern phenomenon, but the idea has been around for centuries. A famous author first wrote about the idea in a novel from 1657!
During the devastating plague outbreaks of 17th-century Europe, the disease did not strike equally. A recent bioarchaeological study of plague victims from a hospital cemetery in Basel, Switzerland, ...
It's snarky, constrained and incomprehensibly social! So, like, basically, Twitter for the 1670s. This month, 323 years ago, an English biographer scribbled notes to another scholar -- or rather, he ...
George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation Vanessa Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative.
A 17th-century painting showing a Black woman with her White companion has been placed under a temporary export bar to reduce the risk of the artwork leaving the United Kingdom. The anonymous painting ...
A new examination of a pre-industrial Scottish natural history book gives a new understanding of post-industrial environmental change in the country. In a new paper published in the Royal Society ...
Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...
The astrolabe - or astronomical computer - is possibly the largest in existence and has never been exhibited before.
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