This is the only known oil painting of Mary Seacole – once an almost unknown nurse from the Crimean War, but now thankfully a key part of the education curriculum in the UK …

The film The Dig is trending on Netflix right now. The movie tells the story of the excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship burial in Suffolk during the last few days of peace in 1939. While it focusses on the discovery of the ship …