The tragedy forced James Cowan to retire and he soon sold the school. His successor, James Iliff, was a capable schoolmaster ...

Interpretations of Kilmartin Glen by various archaeologists and antiquarians all agree it is one of Britain's greatest treasures. Yet the strangest thing is that most people have never heard of it.

The Latin tag abi tu, et fac similiter—go, thou, and do likewise—was widely encountered in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is ...

Her remains were exhumed in the 19th Century by antiquarians. Her skull ended up in the St Andrews University Museum and was photographed before it went missing during the 20th Century.

Booksellers gathered in Pasadena for the California Independent Booksellers Alliance’s Fall Fest 2024, September 17–18. Of ...

The area has been searched for the past 150 years, first by Victorian antiquarians, later by archaeologists. Yet none of them had the slightest idea what lay beneath their feet. Stand at “the ...

As I visited Nice in the summer, I realized firsthand why people call it the city for lovers, escapists, and thinkers, and ...

The Neolithic site at Holm, East Mainland, was largely destroyed by Victorian antiquarians 127 years ago. Experts from National Museums Scotland (NMS) and Cardiff University rediscovered the tomb ...

As he jockeyed aggressively through the torrential chaos of downtown Manhattan traffic, the man hunched over the wheel of the fire-engine red 1956 Continental appeared to be unburdening ...

It was implicit that objectors must be priggish and almost cultish antiquarians to take offence at such a spectacle. This is ...