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. ~humanities.languages Article 382 words 18 votes
Why the Early Modern Period is the most underrated era in European history ~humanities.history Video 16:38 5 votes
A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast: Patrick Gray on Shakespeare ~humanities.history Link 6 votes
Sweden's royal family has taken part in ceremonies marking 500 years since the Scandinavian country emerged as an independent nation ~humanities.history Article 303 words 6 votes
How codebreakers decrypted a trove of long-lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots ~humanities.history Article 1387 words 7 votes
"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. ~humanities.history Video 10:11 11 votes
Mercenary black riders and the evolution of cavalry warfare in the 16th century ~humanities.history Video 14:54 4 votes
A newly digitized map from 1587 offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization ~humanities.history Link 14 votes
Two intricate calligraphy pages from the sixteenth-century manuscript “Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta” have been decoded for the first time ~humanities.history Article 3433 words 12 votes