The long, knotty, world-spanning story of string
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The Oregon Trail’s hidden graves are being found by cadaver dogs
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The glass famine
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With swords, axes and shields, competitors from thirty countries are going head-to-head in the grounds of a Danish fortress in a modern version of old-fashioned battle
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How Die Zeit built a searchable database of Nazi party members
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Shropshire blacksmith is part of a team that has been invited to Denmark to forge an authentic anchor for a reconstructed Viking ship
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Thousands of historical reenactors have gathered in Grunwald, Poland, to commemorate the 616th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald (video)
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A Roman scroll that should be ash has just been read without ever being opened
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I sail the world in a replica 10th-century Viking longboat – it has brought new friendships and showed me how generous people can be
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Rare copy of Declaration of Independence found by UK National Archives in papers of captured US ship
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On the US Declaration of Independence
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Thunder mug and tea voider: understanding the chamber pot in early America
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From 1638-1655 a forgotten Swedish settlement extended across the Delaware Valley – smallest, least-populated and shortest-lived European colony in the US was also the most clandestine
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Archaeologists have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark – dates back more than 1,000 years and underlines the sophistication of Viking society
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Pre-modern armies for worldbuilders, part III: paying for it
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How a Swedish king went on strike in 1768 – this moment in political history poses an interesting question: does a monarchy need a monarch?
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Den Gamle By, located in Aarhus, Denmark, has claimed the European Museum of the Year Award 2026
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Swedish fisherman digging for worms stumbles upon cache of silver coins, beads, rings and pendants dating to the 12th century
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The high‑tech shipbuilding methods that helped Vikings dominate the seas
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Spanish Civil War animated
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The VCs of BC (2015)
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How do you preserve a 400 year old Swedish warship? Vasamuseet in Stockholm is tackling the continued challenge of maintaing the 17th century Vasa.
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The 18th-century English fake news that helped spawn an American sea
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Lost on the ice: The 1897 hydrogen balloon attempt to reach the North Pole
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Kim Bowes on the economic lives of Rome's ninety percent
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Enormous' cave hidden under medieval Pembroke castle could rewrite prehistory, researchers say
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New search engine reveals if ancestors were in Nazi party
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Born into slavery, Adolf Ludvig Couschi Badin became part of the Swedish royal court and left a legacy of books and letters
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Over 200 years after being sunk by the British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson, one of Denmark's most famous warships has been discovered at the bottom of Copenhagen Harbor
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[Steyr] AUG
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Tattooing in the American Civil War was a hedge against anonymous death
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Why Scotland succeeded
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Erling Haaland donated a rare 16th-Century book of Viking sagas, worth £100,000, to be displayed in the library in the Norwegian town of Bryne, where he grew up
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George Orwell’s opposition to totalitarianism was rooted in his support for freeing workers from poverty and exploitation
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The Candlemakers' Petition by Frédéric Bastiat (1845)
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The (illegal) nuclear reactor buried under Greenland
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Stone Age boy in Sweden was buried in deerskin and a woodpecker headdress, archaeologists discover
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'Exceptionally rare' Roman lead blocks found on farmland in Wales
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Here's to the polypropylene makers
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First contact with America
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17th century Swedish Navy shipwreck buried underwater in central Stockholm for 400 years has suddenly become visible due to unusually low Baltic Sea levels
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Those who can, teach history
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Against the state – a primer on terrorism, insurgency and protest
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The ten best and ten worst US foreign policy decisions
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After 1,600 years underwater, remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria emerge
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Wojaks, soyjaks, and you. | Bad art history
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Economic ideas and policy implementation: Evidence from Malthusian training in British Indian bureaucracy
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Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear
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On ancient migrations
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The Mangual, or two handed chain flail. Used extensively in Spain and Portugal from around 1400 -1650. | Weird Weapons
7 votes