Following on from our ground breaking Polar Exhibition in November last year, we asked David Rose to talk to three times cancer survivor Patrick McIntosh about his trek across the Antarctic to the South Pole.
LIFE CYCLE: A GLOBAL RIDE TO FIGHT CANCER (AROUND THE SOUTH POLE) Read Article »
While describing how Robert Strange prepared etching plates to print paper money for Prince Charles Edward Stuart to pay his troops as the Jacobite rebellion collapsed in 1746, Jonathan Callaway recalled the mysterious fate of a cache of French gold…
THE ENGLISHMAN WHO SAVED THE JACOBITES’ GOLD Read Article »
Port Royal was captured by the English in 1655 during the invasion of Jamaica. It grew very rapidly both in trade and in notoriety. Treasure from the sacked Spanish cities and goods from many hundreds of ships found a ready market here.
The Port Royal Earthquake of 1692 Read Article »
The term “Parthian” comes from the name of the satrapy of Parthava (Parthia), a province that was once part of the empire of the Hellenistic Seleucids, and before that of the Achaemenid Persians.
RIVALLING ROME: PARTHIAN COINS AND CULTURE Read Article »
Ahead of David Sear’s much anticipated new release, An Introductory Guide to Ancient Greek and Roman Coins, Olivia Marshall from our book department asked the author to provide Insider readers with an insight…
AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID R SEAR Read Article »
