A few weeks ago, the library of Cambridge’s Trinity College (home of the recently defaced Lord Balfour portrait) exhibited four ­Australian fishing spears. They are all that remain from a collection ...

We take a deep dive into Cook's life and legacy with Cliff Thornton, who is a member of the Captain Cook Society. 250 Years Ago, Captain Cook Embarked On First Of Three Voyages On this day 250 years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr Frances McIntosh, of English Heritage, with items from the 18th-century shell collection - Phil Wilkinson/English Heritage/PA ...

The History Channel's fascinating reality adventure, The Ship, is a three-part voyage from Cairns, Australia, to Bali, Indonesia, that sets sail tonight. When the trip ends Wednesday, its 21st-century ...

"A lot of things started going wrong from the very beginning," historian Hampton Sides says of Cook's last voyage, which ended in the British... 'The Wide Wide Sea' revisits Capt. James Cook's fateful ...

The mission was ambitious and dangerous: to explore new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations and, in the captain's own words, go "farther than any other man has been before me." This was ...

In the late 1700s, a woman collected over a thousand seashells from all over the world. The collection was believed to be lost for decades, until they were saved from the garbage in the 1980s. In the ...

When HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure set sail from Plymouth, England, in 1772, the ships were stocked for a long and grueling journey into the unknown. Provisions included 60,000 tons of biscuit, ...

In the late 1700s, a woman named Bridget Atkinson collected over a thousand seashells from all over the world without ever leaving her village in the rural English county of Cumberland. FRANCES ...