The comet SWAN was spotted in January by an ESA/NASA satellite. It is currently passing overhead and is visible from the Southern Hemisphere. Christian Gloor/Flickr July 16, 2020 Halley’s Comet, Covid-19 and the history of ‘miracle’ anti-comet remedies Sylvain Chaty, Université Paris Cité Are you hesitating to buy anti-Covid-19 toothpaste? 100 years ago, you might have found some miracle elixirs to protect you from Halley’s Comet.
Found a fortune : some of the more than 2,000 coins uncovered at Chew, in south-western England. Aaron Chown/PA Wire/PA Images August 30, 2019 Huge find of silver coins provides new clues to turbulent times after Norman Conquest of England Tom Licence, University of East Anglia Amateur detectorists do a lot of the heavy lifting on which archaeologists depend.
January 17, 2018 Bayeux Tapestry is going home after 950 years – medieval history professor Lindy Grant, University of Reading Nine centuries after it was commissioned to celebrate the Norman Conquest, the famed tapestry is finally going to visit England.