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For centuries, a box of letters sat unopened in the National Archives in the U.K., until one curious historian recently unsealed and read them for the first time. What he found was a panoply of human ...

Times being what they are, one line in Act 2 of the play Transatlantic Liaison is guaranteed to goose the audience to attention. “What a thankless people, the French,” growls Chicago author Nelson ...

Imagine writing a letter to someone when it was one of the few forms of communication while you were apart – and that letter never made it to whom you intended. That is what happened to more than 100 ...

A University of Cambridge historian has decoded more than 100 previously unopened letters sent during the Seven Years War. Lost French love letters from the 1750s reveal what life was like during ...

They never reached the people they were destined to: letters written in the 18th century to French sailors during the Seven Years' War between France and Great Britain have finally been opened, ...

They were left sealed for more than 250 years, never read by their intended recipients. Finally, French letters confiscated by Britain's Royal Navy in the mid-18th century have been opened. Written ...

Now, the letters have been opened and read for the first time, and their contents provide intriguingly rare historical context about a cross section of society at the time, said lead study author ...

Scores of French love letters from the mid-18th century have been opened and studied for the first time since they were written. The letters – sent to French sailors by wives, siblings and parents – ...