Fall officially begins this weekend! The weather, the clothes, the food, the routine… I look forward to it all. With no segue whatsoever, here are this week’s historical highlights, including some thought-provoking articles and interesting news related to archives, genealogy, and historical documents.
Do you know how old stories of Robin Hood are?
It took a court battle to return a missing colonial-era minute book to the Rhode Island state archives.
Mystery solved? Identity of a soldier depicted in the 1916 documentary “The Battle of the Somme” is nearly confirmed.
George Orwell’s personal archives have been added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World register.
Have you ever thought about this? “Genealogy research is and has been largely a pursuit for people of European descent.”
An exhibition all about Winnie-the-Pooh is coming to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. “The goal of the show is to explore various relationships between a bear and a boy, the interplay between Milne’s text and the art of E.H. Shepard, and how classic children’s literature remains relevant in the 21st century.”