Shakespeare’s sister: how using digital archives revealed hidden insights into world famous playwright’s unknown sibling
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Max Space reinvents expandable habitats with a 17th-century twist, launching in 2026
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In the 1600s Sweden was a great military power – why did they decline?
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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 did Google Maps have a big black smudge in the South Pacific before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island? | Map Men
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Writer, woman, playwright, spy: Aphra Behn, author of Oroonoko was the first known woman to be paid for writing in English
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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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Packages seized by the Royal Navy from a Faroese cargo ship bound for Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars opened – previously hidden away in the National Archives
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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The history of fruitcake
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A 17th-century classic of Ethiopian philosophy might be a fake. Does it matter, or is that just how philosophy works?
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What is Classical Vaporwave?
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Why the Early Modern Period is the most underrated era in European history
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Gentileschi. Let us not allow sexual violence to define the artist
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Historian finds evidence for use of y'all in London from 1600s
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Is a highlander shield bulletproof? Targe vs flintlock musket and pistol - Historical myth busting
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The Dutch Textile Trade Project aims to understand the circulation of globally-sourced textiles on Dutch ships around the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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These masks brought shame to gossips, drunks, and narcissists
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa
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Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde said she won't return a historical document to Poland, as it was a “legitimate” spoil of war
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Three centuries on, a shaman's precious rune drum returns home – instrument confiscated by the Danes is given back to the Sámi
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This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first US Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later.
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Pirate guacamole and bumbo
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Charles I's travelling library
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Have a flick through Isaac Newton's notebook
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335 year old recipe, 'Rice Puddings In Guts' (beef bung casing), from The Acompliſht Cook
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The father of modern warfare – the military reforms of Gustavus Adolphus' changed the face of European warfare
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Pumpion Pie from 1670
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Colonial life and the burning of wood
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What Shakespeare actually did during the plague
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The trial of Charles I (1649)
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered two wrecks believed to be 17th-century warships – one of which is likely to be the sister ship of the Vasa
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Newly discovered letter by Galileo shows that he lightly edited his original words to appease the Catholic Church
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1600s Native American fort is one of the most important Northeast finds
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The quest to find William Shakespeare's library
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Where the ‘no ending a sentence with a preposition’ rule comes from
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How to make seventeenth century coffee
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