A 19th-century scholar claimed that "Cocker's Arithmetick" had "probably made as much stir and noise in the English world as any [book]—next to the Bible"

What does a scandalous court case from 1700 reveal about the way the Gunpowder Plot was remembered in eighteenth-century England?

A petition from fourteenth-century Pistoia paints a lively picture of those who frequented its cathedral church of San Zeno and what exactly they were up to.

In the later seventeenth century, a path passing through the Temple Newsam estate in West Yorkshire became the subject of intense and prolonged litigation. The disputants contested whether the path...

An inscription beneath a painting in Pistoia raises interesting questions about what it meant to be literate in the early fifteenth century.

Apart from being an important botanist, Carl Linnaeus was also prolific in his correspondence. Here we'll look at a mysterious letter he received written in Hebrew.

We are used to descriptions of sights and sounds from history, but what about smells? Can we know what a medieval city smelled like? Join us on this guided tour of Bologna's smellscape.

A curious set of drawings by the future king of Sweden, 10 year old Gustav IV Adolf, shed some light on a royal childhood.