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Origins of Political Campaigns: Publicity Stunts & Fake News
5 August 2024How do our politicians use the media? Throughout the 2024 election we have seen a boom in the use of social media and cable news, so how far back...
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The Ancient Olympics: Games Of The Gods
5 August 2024A tradition that endured millennia. The ancient Olympic Games began in 776 BC and took place every four years until at least 396 AD. It was a...
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Innocent or Axe Murderer? Lizzie Borden
5 August 2024It's one of the most infamous trials in American history, Lizzie Borden's story is breathtaking even today. In 1893 she was accused of using an...
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Magellan: The First Man to Sail the World
5 August 2024Just over 500 years ago, a small band of sailors completed the first ever circumnavigation of the globe, launched by Ferdinand Magellan. From...
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The Battle of Hastings
4 August 2024On 14 October 1066, the armies of William, the Duke of Normandy, and the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson clashed near Hastings in one of the...
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Origins of the Olympics
4 August 2024The Olympics. It’s the most famous sporting event in the world, and the 33rd Olympiad is taking place in Paris right now. But how did it all...
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How Nudes Changed Britain
2 August 2024Why were nudes so significant in Victorian England? What role did painting them play in wider social change at that time? And why didn't men think...
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Richard III's Mother: Cecily
2 August 2024Cecily Neville was the matriarch of the House of York, the mother of two kings of England and an ancestor of every monarch since Henry VIII. Born...
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American Operators on WW1's Front Line
1 August 2024When the First World War ended at 11am on 11 November, 1918, how did army command relay the ceasefire to their troops? In fact, before radios and...
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New York Morgue's Dark Secrets
1 August 2024The unclaimed dead of New York City's streets and rivers were once brought to the notorious New York Morgue. It's a history that has never been...
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Hestia: Goddess of Hearth & Home
1 August 2024As both the eldest and youngest child of the great titan Kronos, and the Greek goddess of hearth and home, Hestia was incredibly important in...
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Henry VII: Rise of the Medieval Tudors
1 August 2024Henry VII was descended from some of the greatest Welsh princes. When word spread that he had a chance of taking the English throne, Welsh...
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