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Edward Bird, The Old Soldier's Story (Oil on canvas, 1808). Wolverhampton Arts and Heritage

British redcoat’s memoir reveals harsh realities of disabled veteran life

15 Jan 2026

Archival discoveries including a 19th-century autobiography transform our understanding of Shadrack Byfield, an English veteran of the War of 1812 who...

Artist’s reconstruction of the community at Lower Mistaken Point

Why life on Earth first got big

25 Jun 2018

Some of the earliest complex organisms on Earth – possibly some of the earliest animals to exist – got big not to compete for food, but to spread...

1904 painting "Attack on New Ulm" by Anton Gag

The fall and rise of Native North America

26 Sep 2016

The story of Native North America – from its vast contribution to world culture, to the often taboo social problems of drinking, gambling and violence...

Modern art’s missing chapter

25 Feb 2015

The artworks of black and indigenous peoples – a missing chapter in the history of modern art – is brought into sharp focus in a ‘revelatory’...

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British redcoat’s memoir reveals harsh realities of disabled veteran life

Why life on Earth first got big

The fall and rise of Native North America

Modern art’s missing chapter

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