What challenges of reading an older document, such as a 15th century manuscript, and what can its language tell us? Who, when, where & more!

Medieval Irish and Scottish influences still felt in Germany and beyond.

Unlock Your History launched in 2017! Check out some favorite posts about language history & translating old German, Danish, Swedish.

Beethoven and Goethe, the German Shakespeare, were glad to see liberator Napoleon come, and glad to see occupier Napoleon go. Napoleonic la

It’s 1893. Chicago. Full of ambitious people eager to make their mark. Twenty-five year old Alois, trained in decorative carpentry and paint

The tribes that coalesced into Germans spoke 'the people’s/ popular language’ as opposed to Latin

1843 letter in old German handwriting from my 3x great grandfather, to his son telling him to hurry from the army before his mother dies.

One says he's German. The other says he's Danish. They're twins. It actually makes sense, but there's history to understand.