UK’s oldest Covid-19 victim: Great-grandmother, 108, who survived two world wars and Spanish flu

An 108-year-old great-grandmother is believed to be the oldest person to die from the coronavirus in the UK. Hilda Churchill survived two world wars and the Spanish flu but tragically passed away on Saturday – less than a day after she tested positive for the virus. She had been in isolation at her care home in … Read more

The orphans who survived the Holocaust and rebuilt their lives in the Lake District

The night terrors came often but Harry Olmer remembers only one of his dreams. ‘I was standing facing my mother. We did not talk to each other, we just looked. There was a brick wall being built between us and it got higher and higher until… until I could no longer see her.’ The image … Read more

Human populations in India SURVIVED the Toba ‘super-eruption’ 74,000 years ago

Human populations in India SURVIVED the Toba ‘super-eruption’ 74,000 years ago that plunged the Earth into a decade-long ‘volcanic winter’ and led to the near-extinction of our species Experts thought humans outside Africa may not have survived Toba event  Humans are known to have migrated out of Africa into Eurasia before this time  Researchers have … Read more