Nigel Richardson

Ruined Maya gateway at Labná in the Yucatan peninsula, by Frederick Catherwood, 1844. ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912.

Secret World of the Maya

The earliest European explorers to encounter ruins of the Maya civilisation could not believe it owed its creation to Indigenous Americans. How did they come to believe otherwise?

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Titanic: Southampton's Deep Sorrow

Nigel Richardson describes the impact of the Titanic disaster on Southampton, the city from which she sailed and home to more than a third of those who lost their lives when the ship went down on April 15th, 1912.