A few weeks ago I saw the two Clint Eastwood Iwo Jima movies and was interested by the story of one of the US marine flag planters, Ira Hayes a Pima Indian who is visible in the famous Iwo Jima image by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal....

With all the bleak reports that seem to pour out of the african continent it is good to be able to report on a Good News story! After several years of building and delays, the doors are finally about to open on a giant, new, state of the art library...

As Brazil revels in its new found off shore oil wealth, another form of treasure has recently been found off its coast. A team of Hungarian marine archaeologists are reported to have found the wreckage of a Dutch cargo ship, the Voetboog, that sank...

The BBC and the British Museum have announced a new way to combine and make good use of their joint resources. From January 2010 the BBC is to broadcast (available globally for one week after transmission on the BBC iplayer) a 100 part global history...

Last night I watched an interesting programme from BBC Scotland on the Dundee "Jute Wallahs". Dundee, a city on the east coast of Scotland has an industrial past based on the Jute industry using jute imported from British India (see picture...