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From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world.

The full program for Bodø 2024 leans in hard to Arctic culture including a focus on the Sami people and coastal lifestyle.

Norway’s Lofoten draws tourists from all over the world, but it also has a fascinating history. From the Viking Age through to the development of Norway’s thriving fishing and seafood industries, this is the story

The Grand Canal, Venice by James Holland For nativist movements across the world, the past is a rich source of material waiting to be reshaped. Nationalists hark back to a “Golden Era” of lost power and pride, constructing histories that are often then used to fuel nostalgia and resentment amongst the population. In 2017, for example, India’s government secretly appointed a group of scholars to alter school textbooks, using historical material to promote their ideological view that India ...