Shakespeare’s sister: how using digital archives revealed hidden insights into world famous playwright’s unknown sibling
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Recreating dog food from the last 2,000 years
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National Museum of Denmark is handing over an iconic cloak belonging to an indigenous group in Brazil at a ceremony being attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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Weird Weapons: Caged Buckler - Sword trapper
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Uncovered: 428-year-old secret dossier reveals Elizabeth I’s network of spies
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Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton
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"Sword breakers" were rare and we don't know much about them. How were they used and what were they really for? Two experienced rapier fencers experiment with one to discover more about them.
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Why is there a tiny bit of Italy inside Switzerland?
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The hidden, magnificent history of chop suey
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The making of Pentiment
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When Virginia Woolf wrote about early women writers, she was unaware of or underestimated a few published Elizabethan women
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Richard Farrant - Ah Alas, You Salt Sea Gods (1500s)
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Thirty-nine volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stand as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers after 140 years.
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Sculpting a 16th century alchemy dragon
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Why the Early Modern Period is the most underrated era in European history
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A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast: Patrick Gray on Shakespeare
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Sweden's royal family has taken part in ceremonies marking 500 years since the Scandinavian country emerged as an independent nation
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How codebreakers decrypted a trove of long-lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots
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Lost and found: Codebreakers decipher 50+ letters of Mary, Queen of Scots
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Weird Weapons - 'Bike' chain flail
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The hidden, magnificent history of chop suey - Discrimination and mistranslation have long obscured the dish’s true origins
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Adobo: Filipino or Spanish?
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500 year-old Italian pizza recipe
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A Finnish drink with a heroic past – in the 16th century, effervescent sima was more desired than beer and has since become the go-to beverage for ushering in spring
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Why I teach Machiavelli through his letters
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Mercenary black riders and the evolution of cavalry warfare in the 16th century
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16th century bookwheels, the e-readers of the Renaissance, get brought to life by 21st century designers
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Ottoman Wars - Siege of Buda 1541 and Eger 1552
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Ottoman Wars - Battles of Gorjani and Castelnuovo 1537
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A newly digitized map from 1587 offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization
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Michelangelo’s Sistine splendor, story of a Renaissance icon
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Only Michelangelo made abdomens – and wonky toes – like these
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Two intricate calligraphy pages from the sixteenth-century manuscript “Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta” have been decoded for the first time
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