When Virginia Woolf wrote about early women writers, she was unaware of or underestimated a few published Elizabethan women
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If we shoot a 140lb draw weight English longbow from a five story medieval tower, how much further will the arrows go?
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The biggest mapping mistake of all time
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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Stephen Fry: The history of the first printing press | The machine that made us
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The legendary medieval cockentrice
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Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
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"Pyke notte thy nostrellys." A 15th-century guide on children's manners has been digitized for first time
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Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said
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The dreams of an inventor in 1420
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America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’
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