A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

Southampton, on England’s southern coast, has been at the heart of global seafaring for two millennia, playing key roles in ...

This is the first part in a two-part series from the Evanston Women's History Project chronicling the life and legacy of ...

"Wild West" by Bertrand W. Sinclair was checked out in 1926. It was returned to a branch of the Cincinnati & Hamilton County ...

will not have future cohorts of students through the decades-old program. According to the announcement made on the USDA’s website last week for the 1890 National Scholars Program, the scholarships ...

The now 83-year-old former train worker said the book offered much practical advice and remains one of his favourites, and he kept it because of how much value it held, having been written around ...

1:51 Overdue library book returned to UBC after 64 years Almost everyone has hung onto a library book a little bit too long, but how many of us can measure that infraction in decades? Robert ...

“The logbooks and (some) old booking photographs were found squirreled ... was constructed. The record books from the late 1800s and early 1900s list people charged with an array of crimes ...