During the Little Ice Age the islands became colder, windier and wetter than they had been, factors which may explain why the 13th-century settlement was eventually abandoned. Although the islands ...

IHTA Cork Map 8-TCD An early map of Cork in c. 1600 (Hardiman Collection, Trinity College Dublin), included in IHTA ...

The Carta Pisana or Carte Pisane is a map probably made at the end of the 13th century, about 1275–1300, currently conserved in the Département des cartes et plans at the Bibliothèque nationale de ...

Universities in the United Kingdom have generally been instituted by royal charter, papal bull, Act of Parliament, or an instrument of government under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 or the ...

Northwestern University is officially a founding partner of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), an enormous ground-based ...

Students at the University of Manchester are no strangers to the ‘devils lettuce’, it seems. (Picture: William Lailey / SWNS) Students go to university to expand their minds – but for a long ...

Beyond its practical purposes, the psychological impact of the wall must have been tremendous. For nearly three centuries, ...

The annual celebration of Seminole County’s Swedish heritage will include history displays, live music, Swedish decorations ...

A £50,000 reward has been offered in the hunt for a nationally important collection of early Scottish coins stolen from a ...