This flag feature of the map was added right before it left for England in June 1608, and it was received by the Spanish sometime later that year. For years, archaeologists thought it was just a flag.

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John ...

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old “La Virginea Pars” map drawn by one of the colonists named John ...

The map covers area from Poole’s Island of 280 acres, on the left, with the names of Charles Homer and C.C. Wills ad F. T. Homer. Then there is Carrolls Island of 1,212 acres.

Sunderland and Seaham feature in Historic England’s new online Aerial Photograph Explorer tool, giving the public access to more than 400,000 aerial photographs taken over the last 100 years.

A project mapping medieval England’s known murder cases found that Oxford’s student population was the most lethal of all social or professional groups, committing about 75 percent of all ...