Bridget Atkinson built this collection. Born in 1732, Atkinson and her sister were raised at Kirkoswald by their widowed mother, who taught them how to write and sent them to study homemaking in ...

Dr Frances McIntosh, of English Heritage, with items from the 18th-century shell collection - Phil Wilkinson/English Heritage/PA Shells collected by Captain Cook’s crew were “miraculously” saved from ...

In the late 1700s, a woman named Bridget Atkinson collected over a thousand seashells from all over the world without ever leaving her village in the rural English county of Cumberland. FRANCES ...

A "globally important" shell collection from the 18th century, thought to have been lost for more than 40 years, has resurfaced. The collection contains more than 200 specimens—among them rare ...

In the late 1700s, a woman collected over a thousand seashells from all over the world. The collection was believed to be lost for decades, until they were saved from the garbage in the 1980s. In the ...