The Stone of Scone.
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The return of the Stone of Scone to Westminster has proven controversial.
Researchers have uncovered the likely genesis of the yeast used to make lager.
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Little-known documents and scientific detective work helped pinpoint the origin of lager.
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Breaking the taboo: the fascinating history of menstrual products.
The ready availability of clay pipes meant that they were sometimes used for other activities other than smoking.
Ashmolean Museum
A pipe in the hand could end or save a life.
Irish actor Paul Mescal sporting a mullet in 2023.
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In the 17th century, the mullet was written about with imperial and racist overtones.
A mural to Shakespeare in London.
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In the late 16th century, new mathematical concepts were transforming perceptions of the world. Shakespeare’s plays helped audiences to process these changes.
Shakespeare’s First Folio was the first published work to include Macbeth.
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Without the First Folio, the canon of Shakespeare’s plays would have decisively shifted.
Moro’s bullet-riddled body lays in the boot of a car in Via Caetani, in central Rome, on 9 May 1978.
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Marco Bellochio’s series is the latest interpretation of a murder that continues to haunt Italy.
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There is a long history of tossing food at politicians and other controversial figures as a deliciously defiant symbol of objection to their politics and presence in public spaces.
Mystic Meg in a promotional image.
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Critics of superstition have often painted openness to magical interpretations as weakness or moral failing.
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci.
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A document, which dates to 1452, shows that da Vinci’s father emancipated an enslaved woman named Caterina – Leonardo’s mother.
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The ABC mini-series, In Our Blood, offers a fictionalised account of Australia’s response to AIDS – but more can be done to remember lesbians’ immense contribution to AIDS activist movements.
Lady Godiva by John Collier (1898).
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
When I began stripping off in the form of naked protest, I presumed there were no puritans left to object. I was wrong.
Francisco V. Coching’s Rendition of Gabriela Silang Charging on a Mount, 1986 (Ayala Museum).
Did this sacred time of year make ordinary Filipinos in the 1700s more willing to challenge the Spanish empire?
Around 400 local children have been involved in this archaeological project in Cardiff, Wales.
Vivian Paul Thomas
Since 2011, professional and amateur archaeologists in Cardiff have been unearthing prehistoric artefacts. But last summer, they began to discover something even more extraordinary.
The inscription “He is Odin’s Man” is in a round half circle over the head of a man.
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The discovery of the oldest recorded mention of the Norse god Odin pushes the age of this deity back at least 150 years.
This is a digitally generated image of what a city might look like after a war.
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Urban spaces are a repository of people’s beliefs, memories and collective conscience.
Hundreds of thousands of hours of broadcasting history are available for the first time.
National Library of Wales
The Wales Broadcast Archive in Aberystwyth brings together the archives of the BBC, ITV and S4C under one roof.
By reflecting on sugar’s origins, we can trace the pathways that have made this commodity so abundant.
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By reflecting on the violent origins of the Canadian sugar industry, we can bring wider attention to the exploitation underpinning the history of Canadian cuisine.
Toyin Falola has turned 70.
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With over 200 publications to his name, his three most recent books give a sense of why he is so famous as a historian.