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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]
An intriguing and beautiful map of Bologna in Italy drawn in the C16th and housed in the Vatican [more]
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 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]
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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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.
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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]
Another Medieval woman of some count was Hodierna, wet nurse to King Richard 1 and mother of the scientist and theologian Alexander Neckham [more]
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]
What is the connection between London ragamuffin children and Dr Livingstone in Africa? A very talented Victorian neoclassical artist Dorothy Tennant. [more]