The Origin List 2026 celebrates Indigenous-led travel around the world through journeys that connect us not only with breathtaking landscapes, but with the people, cultures and stories that have shaped them for millennia. Step into a world of ancient wisdom and living tradition through 50 unforgettable experiences crafted by Indigenous communities.

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel

Hunting’s cultural heritage should be officially recognised, says Ed Swales

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

History is a multifaceted discipline drawn from long passed events that can still affect and define us in the present. Wherever we live there will be an established national history and story that has

CREATIVITY HAS LONG REIGNED IN SWEDISH LAPLAND — WHERE THE SÁMI HISTORICALLY USED THEIR INGENUITY TO SURVIVE THE COLD, DARK WINTERS, AND REGIONAL ARTS AND CRAFTS STILL FLOURISH