This chapter of family history took place in 1920, in the Polish village of Wysokie Mazowieckie, where half of the inhabitants were Jews. Rabinowitz recounts his great-grandfather Isaac coming ...

A History of the World is a partnership between the BBC and the British Museum that focuses on world history, involving collaborations between teams across the BBC, and schools, museums and ...

A crystal decanter with a chip reminds me of a bold 1911 journey. My precious object is this more-than-a-century-old decanter. In 1911, when my then 14-year-old grandfather Jan Roušar (changed to ...

Family heirlooms are more than just objects; they are tangible pieces of history that tell the stories of loved ones, ...

This is the crest of the Aislabie family, who once owned the Studley Royal Estate. The crest features a small red head, thought to be that of the Pan, the Roman God of Flocks and Shepherds.

We interviewed 8 refugees from different corners of the globe and asked: What's one precious belonging you brought along on your journey to remind you of home? The answers ranged from a set of incense ...

Like so many things in life, deciding what objects to hang on to is about finding a balance ... You can learn how to date old photographs and other paper mementos and find out about your family ...

The museum opened the doors of its “Cabinet of Curiosities” at a History Café program Wednesday on “Uniquely Interesting and Mysterious Objects at the Museum.” Museum […] Skip to content ...

The Constable-Maxwell family who reside at Bosworth Hall, a stately home in the heart of rural Leicestershire in central England, have safeguarded these sacred objects, testament to England’s ...

After the mass killing at Wounded Knee, the American Museum of Natural History received children’s toys taken from the site. A 1990 law was meant to “expeditiously return” such items to ...

Fong stressed the importance of not waiting to start preserving your family’s history. For a project like his, “if you don’t have the source material from the early days, there’s nothing that you can ...

Last week, a public database cataloging all those family objects—more than 8,000 of them—went live. ... Concerned that Bianchi would not receive her rightful place in history, ...