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The Symbolic Animal

Here is your sign to learn more about what makes humans ‘symbolic animals’. In this blog, Guido Guarducci, co-editor of Archaeology of Symbols, explores the ways in which people have used symbols throughout history, and[…]

The Hart of the Matter

Exploring deer parks: our oldest and wildest gardens From art and literature, to royal emblems, to your local pub, the white hart has leapt and gambolled across British history, taking shelter under the ancient trees[…]

Pages of Healing: A Bookish Timeline of Historic Healthcare

Be it medicinal herbs or antibiotics, humans have been healing since there have been humans to heal. As we’re already Putting Science & Medicine Under the Microscope for #WorldHealthDay, why not supplement your knowledge with this globetrotting timeline inspired by just a few of our health-giving titles on the history of medicine?

Bringing Past Invisible Economic Processes to Light

‘Reduce, Re-use, Recycle’. A much older concept than you might expect… In this blog, Julia Steding sheds light on what sustainable practices can tell us about past societies, revealing some of the surprising ways in[…]

#FindYourVoice: Revolutionary Rhetoric for International Women’s Day

Today’s blog is an ode to the women who have wielded pens, megaphones, and shared secrets to build communities and fight injustice. #FindYourVoice in these 11 volumes that turn up the volume on subversive women brandishing language and rhetoric like blades.

Into the Groove

What Grooved Ware Can Teach us about Social Developments in the Late 4th and Early 3rd Millennia BC. This groovy blog by Mike Copper, co-editor of Revisiting Grooved Ware, will take you on a journey[…]

The Turmoil and Struggles of Ukraine’s Past: Wars, Genocide, and Resistance against the Nazis

Touching on key events, this brief overview explores the history of Ukraine, including its formation under Kievan Rus’, attacks by the Mongols, the emergence of a kingdom centered on Moscow, and the subsequent expansion of[…]

Listen To Your Microbes: A Story of Connection, Collaboration and Creation!

Guest post by Laura Gowers, co-author of Listen to Your Microbes | 7 min read Most of life on Earth is invisible! We are, in fact, living in a microbial world, surrounded by trillions of[…]

A Date with the Two Cerne Giants

Seen the stories about the Cerne Abbas Giant in the news? Want to learn more? Enjoy this exclusive insight into an exciting Windgather Press volume on the subject, coming Summer 2024! By Julie Gardiner, Publisher[…]