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Great Great Great Great (x 250) Grandad

With a recent surge of interest in genealogy, family trees have been sprouting up left, right and centre. In this ‘who do you think you are’ era, there can be few projects more satisfying…

Friday Five… Victorian inventions we can’t live without

It seems the Victorian era wasn’t all rats, rotting teeth and emptying your chamber pot onto the street. They gave us some pretty significant inventions as well. Here are five of the best… 1. …

A Woman’s Place is in the Cave

As Virginia Woolf once wrote “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” though recent analysis of Upper Palaeolithic cave art suggest that she may not be quite right. New studies of prehistoric handprint…

Friday Five… Most Impressive Egyptian Temples

In light of recent events, it’s fair to say that Egypt it is not likely to be a popular winter sun getaway for this October half term. But rather than dwell on the terrible…

The Neolithic Housing Boom… and Bust

It’s often said that if we don’t learn the lessons of the past, we’re doomed to repeat them in the future. That’s been a running theme in British politics this week, as the coalition…

The World’s Five Oldest Written Languages

If History is written by the winners, then Archaeology tells us how things actually were – unsullied by the duplicitous meaning of the written word. The trowel, it might be said, never lies! But…

Global Warming’s Double-edged Sword

With the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reporting last week with their starkest warning yet, prospects for global warming look even more pessimistic than scientists had previously projected. The IPCC says it…