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Fury And Ice: The Role of Top Secret Allied Codebreaking in the Battle for Greenland

Featured photo: Members of the US Coast Guard disembark on Greenland’s icy east coast in bid to track down German weather forecasters (via National Archives). By Peter Harmsen | 4 min read In the summer of 1940, Royal Navy Intelligence Officer Edward Thomas was dispatched to Iceland as part of a British force occupying the… Read More »Fury And Ice: The Role of Top Secret Allied Codebreaking in the Battle for Greenland

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Fortress Britain 1940: 10 Fascinating Facts About Britain’s Defence Strategies During WWII

By Casemate Marketing Team | 4 min read Throughout history, Britain’s experience of war has been very different from that of its European mainland neighbours. The nature of the continent of Europe means that an expected part of any war has always been that armies will cross borders. However, the island nation of Britain has… Read More »Fortress Britain 1940: 10 Fascinating Facts About Britain’s Defence Strategies During WWII

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What you didn’t know about the Cerne Abbas Giant

Top 10 facts about the Rude Man of Dorset! As a result of National Trust excavations in 2020, and the subsequent geophysical, land snail and auger surveys in 2023 and 2024, we have learnt much more about the Rude Man of Dorset, otherwise known as the Cerne Abbas Giant. In this blog, Michael J. Allen,… Read More »What you didn’t know about the Cerne Abbas Giant

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The Real Treasure of Tutankhamun

Uncovering a Wealth of Information Using Everyday Objects The tomb of Tutankhamun, opened up by Howard Carter and his team in November 1922, is the only “essentially intact” pharaoh’s tomb to have been found. However the glittering golden artefacts discovered within this royal resting place may have blinded people to the importance of the scientific… Read More »The Real Treasure of Tutankhamun

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Bringing Past Invisible Economic Processes to Light

‘Reduce, Re-use, Recycle’. A much older concept than you might expect… In this blog, Julia Steding sheds light on what sustainable practices can tell us about past societies, revealing some of the surprising ways in which objects were kept in the economic cycle, and encouraging a shift in research agendas. By Julia Steding, co-editor of… Read More »Bringing Past Invisible Economic Processes to Light

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