The University of Leeds shares the oldest English book about cheese, offering rare insights into diets and early cheesemaking ...

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Another claim includes a warning that consuming a dog’s milk can cause premature birth. While the author reassures that he ...

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One of the easiest ways to get kids hooked on reading is to get them into a great book series. All it takes is a captivating Book 1, and they're off and running. Fantasy, mystery, science fiction, ...

Creating a roundup of the 25 best-selling books of all time is harder than it sounds. Books—especially those published hundreds of years ago—were published in different editions and translated ...

The Great Gatsby is synonymous with parties, glitz and glamour – but this is just one of many misunderstandings about the book that began with its first publication a century ago, in April 1925.

Books with furry covers are indicative of medieval monks’ role in international trade, researchers said. Lévêque, et al (2025) Royal Society Open Science At the end of the ninth century, a group of ...

Allan Robertson was a businessman, employer, featherie ballmaker, inventor, keeper of the green and designer of golf courses - but the man from St Andrews has sat in the shadow of Old Tom Morris ...

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has found. It is rare to find medieval manuscripts in their original ...

Science is helping researchers judge books by their covers — and revealing surprising beneficiaries of medieval trading routes in the process. Dozens of rare, fur-covered volumes from 12th and ...

Police in California are searching for additional victims who a youth soccer coach may have sexually assaulted after he was officially charged with the death of one of his 13-year-old players.