New World

The Past

Research sheds light on the multi-ethnicity of an early colonial city in Mexico

Ancient DNA analysis has identified individuals of Indigenous Maya, European, and West African origin in the city's cemetery.

ABOVE Major General Edward Braddock (1695 1755). A British Army veteran of 45 years’ service, Braddock was too arrogant to take proper account of the exceptional nature of warfare in the American wilderness.

Debacle in the wilderness: Braddock at Monongahela

‘A volley fired by a young Virginian in the backwoods of America set the world on fire.’ That was the judgement of Horace Walpole. Fred Chiaventone tells the story.

ABOVE Visitors can walk through the large ship structure that runs down the centre of the exhibition space to learn more about the journey and the

Mayflower 400: Legend & Legacy

On entering the gallery, visitors are reminded that, despite their prominence in the story of the early colonists, the passengers of the Mayflower were not the first Europeans to settle in the ‘New World’.

Above Overlooking the landscape at Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum recreating Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, which helps to tell the Mayflower’s story.

The Mayflower, 1620-2020: tracing voyages of discovery in Plymouth’s past

Four hundred years ago, the Mayflower carried around 100 would-be colonists across the Atlantic to found Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts. What can we learn of these voyagers, the city they left behind, and the impact they had on the indigenous people who were already living on the land where they settled? Carly Hilts reports.