THIS remarkable object from the collection of the British Museum has just gone on display in Kirkleatham Museum, near Redcar, as part of its ...

The controversial legacy of Captain James Cook On the Big Island of Hawaii, where the waves roll into Kealakekua Bay, a white obelisk 27 feet tall looms over the shoreline. It's a tribute to the ...

Captain Cook's HMS Endeavour saw the shores of Tahiti and Australia before its final Rhode Island resting place - but its nautical story started in North Yorkshire. "Without Whitby there would have ...

Shells from Captain James Cook’s final voyage were thought lost, but it turns out that a lecturer had pulled them from a dumpster 40 years ago. The collection, with roughly 200 specimens from ...