Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of Lismore To the residents of the Scottish island of Lismore, population 190, history is never very far away. The tiny island near Oban in Argyll has no row of shops or even a pub – if islanders want to meet for a coffee, the only place to do so is in the lively Gaelic heritage centre that records the many centuries of community life on the island. This quiet place, documentary evidence records, was home to a monastic settlement in the sixth century AD, when missionaries from Ireland were first moving into northern Britain to spread Christianity. But apart from a few fragments of an early carved cross, there was almost nothing to see from this period of history. Continue reading...

WALTHILL — For 37 years, Vida Stabler raised a family and carefully maintained a two-and-a-half story, Folk Victorian home in this reservation town. It was a fixer-upper, she said, but ideal for her…

Call for Papers: Women and Public History: The Professional, the Political, and the Historical    Women are the majority of public historians. What now? This special issue of The Public Historian,…

The manuscript has information about monks praying for those who died in the battle in 1066.

"We have much yet to learn from her life and writing."

Book containing early versions of the Merlin and Grail legends has remained in private hands for 700 years

Officials from the University of Nebraska system celebrated the opening of an expanded rural health teaching complex in Kearney.

Found in Egypt, the papyrus confirms that Homer was everywhere in the ancient Mediterranean.

Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder A lost copy of a poem composed in the seventh century by a Northumbrian cattle herder – the earliest surviving poem in the English language – has been discovered in Rome. Scholars from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) uncovered the manuscript that contains Caedmon’s Hymn at the National Central Library of Rome. Continue reading...

Previously unreleased photos show astronaut Neil Armstrong in the aftermath of a space mission that almost took his life.

Exhibition includes linen shirt collar from when author suffered a fatal stroke along with other personal items Rare surviving items of Charles Dickens’ clothing, including the linen shirt collar worn by the writer when he suffered his fatal stroke in 1870, are to go on display. Other items being exhibited include Dickens’ black silk stockings – part of his only surviving suit – as well as personal effects and items related to his personal grooming, including a set of six silver razors used for his daily shave, a perfume bottle, silver candle snuffers and a gold locket, containing photos and locks of hair from Dickens and his son, Henry. Continue reading...

Discovery sheds new light on how famed astronomer came to lead a scientific revolution

"Trees of defense" represented a significant embrace of alternative agricultural strategies.

Song based on the story of Miss Minnie Freeman, a teacher who saved 13 children during the Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888. From the introduction: Miss Minnie Freeman, the plucky little school teacher at...

The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...