MANITOWOC, Wis. (WBAY) — The Manitowoc County Historical Society is preparing for winter with its annual fall cleanup, which started Thursday and continues Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cleaning supplies are available for volunteers to use. It is helpful if groups…
Researchers believe they may have uncovered one of Britain's 'most important' female leaders of all time A prominent Iron Age ruler long assumed to have been a king may in fact have been a queen, bombshell new research suggests. Dr…
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Climate change may have contributed to childhood vitamin D deficiency during England's Industrial Revolution, according to new research from our Department of Archaeology. Dr Ellen Kendall and her research team studied centuries-old teeth and historical burial records from a Quaker…
King Verica is one of the central figures in early British history. Verica convinced the Roman emperor Claudius to launch an invasion, setting in motion the Roman Empire’s conquest of Britain. A pivotal king – except Verica was probably a queen.
SPRINGHILL, N.S. – One minute, Valarie Alderson was at her grandmother’s kitchen table. The next, her life and the lives of many others changed forever. “I was standing at the kitchen table, finishing my homework, and I felt the ground shake,” Alderson…
Sid Glennie remembers the ground shaking and seeing a mushroom cloud over the No. 4 mine in Springhill just after supper on Nov. 1, 1956. It was the second of three mine disasters to befall the Springhill mines and this one claimed 39 men.
April 1, 2026, 12:05 am CDT John D. Rockefeller was barely 20 when Edwin Drake struck oil in the Pennsylvania town of Titusville in 1859. Drake’s discovery produced an “oil rush” to the area not unlike California’s gold rush 10 years earlier; and Rockefeller, an ambitious bookkeeper…
AN Iron Age British king was actually female, reveals new research. The study shows Verica, who was central to the Roman Invasion of Britain in 43AD, was in fact a woman. Verica was ruler of the Atrebates, a tribe whose territory…
One of the 20 new interpretive signs along the Coal Mines Trail connecting the communities of Cle Elum, Roslyn and Ronald. The Roslyn Ronald Cle Elum Heritage Club said the new interpretive signs offer residents and visitors a deeper understanding of…
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