COVID-19: The long view
22 May 2020The COVID-19 pandemic should only present a short-term interruption to 250 years of improving life expectancy, argues historian Leigh Shaw-Taylor.
The Thatcher papers: 1990
03 Mar 2020The Churchill Archives Centre shines a light on Margaret Thatcher's final year in office.
Shanidar Z: what did Neanderthals do with their dead?
18 Feb 2020Archaeologists have unearthed a Neanderthal skeleton in a famous cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Pride and prejudice at high altitude
23 Jan 2020Tensions between foreign climbers and Sherpas began over 200 years ago, a new study suggests
Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland
06 Jan 2020Medieval Greenlanders may have chased dwindling walrus herds ever farther north in an effort to maintain their economy, when the value of walrus...
The unschooled anthropologist working with Q'eqchi' weavers
24 Sep 2019Living for ten months with Q’eqchi’ weavers in the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala, PhD student Callie Vandewiele watched and listened as the women crafted...
Ancient faeces reveal how ‘marsh diet’ left Bronze Age Fen folk infected with parasites
16 Aug 2019Coprolites from the Must Farm archaeological excavation in East Anglia shows the prehistoric inhabitants were infected by parasitic worms that can be...
Secret recordings reveal the sexual struggles of Fifties Britain
16 Apr 2019A new study of pioneering counselling sessions explores how women sought to overcome sexual difficulties at a pivotal moment in Britain’s sex history.
Music to the ears: Liszt’s lost opera
18 Feb 2019Liszt's lost opera heard for the first time in 170 years
The Lost Words: inspiring children to love and protect nature
30 Nov 2018The Lost Words is a book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris that summons the magic of nature to help children find, love and protect the natural...