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The Prize Papers collection will change the way we see the past. The research possibilities are almost unlimited.

More than 500 000 documents, 19 different languages, more than 130 different document types - confiscated time capsules taken from captured ships 1652–1815.

Join us for the conclusion of the three-part podcast series “Secrets of the Prize Papers” with insights from Dr Annika Raapke Öberg (Uppsala) and me: pod.link/1460242815

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Images: Podcast recording group picture; below: Screenshot Prize Papers Materiality Shots. Prize Papers Project (Oldenburg/London), ref. HCA 32/140. The National Archives, UK. Photographer: Maria Cardamone.

This iron stylus (a type of pen for writing on wax or clay tablets) in scribed with the lines: "I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able [to give] as generously as the way is long [and] as my purse is empty."

Or to put is simply, "My friend went to Rome and all I got was this lousy pen.

Dated to about AD 70. Found in London during excavations by MOLA.

A long, shaped spike of iron with the inscription highlighted in yellow.

Went on a short trip to Zennor today. When we weren’t in the 700yr old pub next to the open fire, we were in the even older church (sat atop what was once a Bronze Age village). Here resides a 600yr old chair depicting a mermaid. The legend goes she was enticed from the sea by the singing voice of a man in the church choir. They both fell in love and disappeared together into the sea, never to return.

A wooden chair with a carved panel depicting a mermaid.

Photo of the Day

Reading the paper on February 8, 1945.

Washington, London and Moscow issued identical statements yesterday which said the “Big Three” Allied leaders, FDR, Churchill and Stalin, had reached ‘complete agreement’ on operations for the final phase of the war against Nazi Germany.

They are meeting somewhere in the Black Sea area, reports say, and are now discussing plans for the postwar occupation of Germany

https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-dce?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

The remains of an Iron Age Crannog, dating from around 2,000 years ago, on the foreshore of the Clyde at Boden Boo, with the Erskine Bridge, which opened in 1971, in the background. Crannogs consisted of a round house constructed on a manmade island in lochs, marshes or intertidal zones. In this case, a circle of wooden posts were sunk into the sand and the internal space was filled with rocks and silt to create the base on which the house was then be built.

A pile of seaweed covered stones and ancient timbers on an otherwise sandy beach, with a 1970s suspension bridge in the background.

Captain Christopher Billopp, an Englishman, was the first to settle in Tottenville. He came to New York harbor with Major Edmund Andros in 1674.
It was he who built Bentley Manor around 1680, the building now called the Conference House after an 18th Century attempted peace conference held there that could have changed the course of the American Revolutionary War.
https://www.angiemangino.com/tottenville-history-blog