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, ...

A picture shows love letters sent to capture French sailors, that had gone unread for 265 years.The National Archives / Renaud Morieux Love letters sent to French sailors have been opened for the ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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