Here there be dragons

After a long, arduous climb, NASA’s Perseverance rover has finally reached the top of Jezero Crater’s rim. It took the rover three and a half months to vertically ascend 500 metres (1,640ft), at times

The most gruesome case in Finland’s history began on Tuesday 19 August 1930, when 14-year-old Leo Löfman found a human hand in a spring. The boy had been picking berries in Tattarisuo, a marshy, unpop

Alfred and Bede. These are the two figures who tower over the first half-millennium of the history of Anglo-Saxon England. There’s a reason for that, of course: they wrote this history. The Venerable

In 1798, Britain’s most celebrated admiral pursued the French across the Mediterranean, attempting to thwart General Bonaparte’s mission to Egypt. The pursuit culminated in what was arguably the most strategically important naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars

I use a lot of images in my blogs, published articles and presentations. Some are photos of people. Many are diagrams, graphs or copies of documents from parish registers, books and articles or websit

One day late in 1939, a small article appeared in our daily newspaper. It was submitted by the government and was an appeal for British women to knit socks for men in the army, which was unable to obt