The Ship at 3,008 Metres, and the 2026 Vote to Stop Going Back

The Ship at 3,008 Metres, and the 2026 Vote to Stop Going Back

Aug 31, 2026 | Journal

There is a ship at the bottom of the Weddell Sea that has not been touched since the day it sank. Endurance, the three-masted barquentine in which Ernest Shackleton and twenty-seven men set out in 1914 to make the first land crossing of Antarctica, was found on 5...
The Bell, the Sandbank, and a Three-Hundred-Year Argument

The Bell, the Sandbank, and a Three-Hundred-Year Argument

Aug 29, 2026 | Journal

There is a bell in a conservation lab in Norfolk that is doing more historical work than most libraries. It was cast in 1681, hung in a Royal Navy frigate called Gloucester, lost with the ship on a Norfolk sandbank in the early hours of 6 May 1682, and found again,...
The Furnace at Thornton, and the Iron in the Bog

The Furnace at Thornton, and the Iron in the Bog

Aug 27, 2026 | Archaeology & History

There is a hole in the ground outside Thornton, in West Yorkshire, and what is interesting about it is mostly what is not there. The hole is the bottom of an iron-smelting furnace from the Late Iron Age, about 2,400 years old, dug in advance of a construction project...