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Who Was the Real Jack the Ripper and How Did He Escape Justice?

What Was It Like to Ride a Victorian Luxury Train?

The Zulu Army and Their Tactics at the Battle of Isandlwana

How the ‘Newgate Controversy’ Destroyed Dickens’ Greatest Rival

Reader, She Married Him: The Real Brontë Love Story

Bands of Brothers: The Roles of Friendly Societies in the 19th Century

The Trade in Lunacy: Private Madhouses in 18th and 19th Century England

Edwin Landseer Lutyens: The Greatest Architect Since Wren?

‘The Lady With The Lamp’: How Did Florence Nightingale Transform British Nursing?

What Were Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Greatest Achievements?

Why Did the British Invade Afghanistan a Second Time?

How Did the Battle of Isandlwana Unfold?

What Was the Prelude to the Battle of Isandlwana?

Why Is the Palace of Westminster’s Design so Iconic?

What Was The Great Exhibition and Why Was It So Significant?

Who Was William Morris and Why Was He Important?  

A Luminary of British Romanticism: Who Was J. M. W. Turner?

10 Facts About Blenheim Palace

5 Funerary Superstitions that Gripped Victorian England

What Was The Industrial Revolution?

The Worse Case of Parliamentary Disorder in British History?

Russia’s Spoils from the Opium Wars: Vladivostok and the Golden Horn Bay

20 Facts About the Opium Wars

A Timeline of Hong Kong’s History

The Extraordinary Daddy-Long-Legs Railway of Brighton 

Vikings to Victorians: A Brief History of Bamburgh from 793 – Present Day

How Victoria’s Coronation Restored Support for the Monarchy

Who Was the Pioneering Explorer Mary Kingsley?

What Happened to Deep Coal Mining in Britain?

How Did Ottawa Become Canada’s Capital?

200 Years Since the Birth of Queen Victoria

When Did Queen Victoria Marry Prince Albert?

Why Did the French Invade Mexico in 1861?

How Charlie Chaplin Became a Worldwide Icon

12 Facts About the Battle of Isandlwana

12 Facts About the Battle of Rorke’s Drift

What Happened to the Mary Celeste and Her Crew?

How Winston Churchill’s Early Career Made Him a Celebrity

When Did the Industrial Revolution start? Key Dates and Timeline

How the Siege of Ladysmith Became a Turning Point in the Boer War

What Was It like to Ride the Victorian London Underground?

How a Cricket Club in Sheffield Created The Most Popular Sport In The World

Have We Failed to Recognise Britain’s Shameful Past in India?

Why Did British Rule in India Have Such a Deadly Impact Compared to Previous Colonising Forces?

Did British Rule in India Really Become More Enlightened in the 19th Century?

How Britain Undermined the Indian National Congress

Why is the Last King of Burma Buried in the Wrong Country?

How Venezuela’s 19th Century History is Relevant to Its Economic Crisis Today

10 Facts About the Industrial Revolution

How a 12 Year Old Schoolboy Set About Restoring the Magnificent Gwrych Castle

10 Facts About Queen Victoria

Jack the Ripper: 10 Things We Know About London’s Hidden Serial Killer

No Flights of Fantasy: Pilcher, Wilson and British Powered Flight

Edgar Allen Poe’s Torment and ‘The Raven’

How Otto von Bismarck Unified Germany

How Smog Has Plagued Cities Around the World for over a Hundred Years

How New Zealand Became the First Nation to Give Women the Vote

How Bismarck’s Victory at the Battle of Sedan Changed the Face of Europe

When Was the First Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race?

Who Was the First King of Italy?

What Is the Story Behind Mendelssohn’s Wedding March?

How a Small Band of British Soldiers Defended Rorke’s Drift Against All the Odds

David Livingstone: Explorer and Abolitionist

How The Disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade Became a Symbol of British Heroism

How British-Boer Relations Descended into War in South Africa

Where Were the World’s First Traffic Lights?

How On the Origin of Species Shattered the Church Orthodoxy