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C17th Human Dissection and Ressurectionists
The enlightenment period of the C17th brought with it a new approach to science based on observation and experimentation and with that came the practi[more]
Bologna’s Map The Bononia Docet Mater Studorium
An intriguing and beautiful map of Bologna in Italy drawn in the C16th and housed in the Vatican [more]
Europes Oldest University
The Medieval universities and the cities in which they sit continue to inspire and engage us. Bologna Italy, lays claim to founding Europe's oldest un[more]
Body Snatching could make your body worth more dead than alive and the Anatomy Act was one way of starting toa ddress this dreadful and workhouse Regi[more]
The Workhouse System was a radical solution to a problem of immense scale in mid C19th Britain. Tory landowners and Whig economists for once voted tog[more]
What Poor Law and workhouse records can you use to add contextural colour to your family history? How can you find out more about the events that sha[more]
The Cyrus Cylinder
The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the world's most intriguing and important written artefacts. Usually kept at the British Museum it is currently on tour i[more]
Bury The Dead. Christian Burials
Christian burial traditions tell us a lot about the communities in which they are acted out. These customs affected your ancestors final resting place[more]
Mapping Manchester a set of intriguing online resources to help you narrate and gain insight into your own family history...
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Roman Map Intriguing Tabula Peutingeriana
The Tabula Peutingeriana is an intriguing ancient map, looking not unlike an underground map and serving a similar purpose but for the whole of the Ro[more]
The largest family tree in the world, that of the Chinese philosopher Confusius has been digitized. Related posts: Family History Books 40,000 Dig[more]
King Edward IV and Jane Shore
King Richard III, King Edward IV and Jane Shore. Just how was the life of this woman bound up in the enthralling politics of the Middle Ages when war [more]
Medieval Women, Hodierna Mother of Alexander Neckham
Another Medieval woman of some count was Hodierna, wet nurse to King Richard 1 and mother of the scientist and theologian Alexander Neckham [more]
Medieval Woman Eleanor of Aquitaine Part 1
Eleanor of Aquitaine was the most powerful and rich women in northern Europe in the early Medieval period but what were her motivations that turned he[more]
Mrs Dorothy Stanley, Art and Africa
What is the connection between London ragamuffin children and Dr Livingstone in Africa? A very talented Victorian neoclassical artist Dorothy Tennant. [more]
The ‘art of the possible’, The BBC has announced the public beta launch of a new initiative to bring the UK’s entire collection of o[more]
The ‘art of the possible’, The BBC has announced the public beta launch of a new initiative to bring the UK’s entire collection of oil p[more]
Chronology and the sequence of the events and the relationship and dependencies and connections between them, all very intriguing. Lots of tools say t[more]