Melting glaciers in Norway have revealed ancient artefacts dropped by the side of a road more than 1,000 years ago. Clothes, tools, equipment and animal bone have been found by a team at a lost mountain pass at Lendbreen in Norway’s mountainous region. A haul of more than 100 artefacts at the site includes horseshoes, … Read more
Sasha and Bill on their wedding day in 2005 As a psychotherapist counselling bereaved people for a living, Sasha Bates thought she knew a lot about grief. But when her husband Bill died suddenly, could she find a way to cope with her own agonising loss? I waited 35 years to meet Bill. Then one … Read more
Skeletal remains of a shipwreck have appeared on the Maine coastline nearly every 20 years, but have remained a mystery for more than six decades – until now. Researchers have finally identified the wooden wreck as a British cargo ship that dates back before the Revolutionary War – making it older than America itself. Using … Read more
Hairy Biker Dave Myers is recalling the moment when he saw, through the unfiltered lens of television, that he had got fat. He caught sight of himself on re-runs of The Hairy Bikers’ 2009 Food Tour of Britain. ‘It’s the maddest thing, watching old shows,’ says Myers, ‘like getting your family album out and flicking … Read more
HISTORY MISSING By Richard van Emden (Pen & Sword £20, 292 pp) Francis Mond was born into a world of riches and privilege. Yet he died on May 15, 1918, aged only 23, when his RAF plane was shot from the skies and plummeted into no man’s land in Northern France. Both Mond’s body and … Read more