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Origins of the Celts
16 June 2024The Celts are an ancient people shrouded in mystery and intrigue. In the minds of most people the word ‘Celt’ refers to the people of Iron Age...
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The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan
15 June 2024With a sinister hierarchy of "grand wizards" and "dragons," hooded Klansmen concealed their identities as they unleashed a reign of terror on...
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Tudor Lesbians
14 June 2024Throughout history, it's mostly been queer men who were persecuted under the historical sodomy laws, but the Tudor period saw a spike in women...
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Rise of the Crusader States
14 June 2024The Crusader states in the Near East were created after the First Crusade in order to keep hold of the territorial gains made by those known in...
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President Grover Cleveland: Honest to a Fault?
13 June 2024They say that honesty is the best policy, but was this the case for Grover Cleveland? He may be the only president to have served two...
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Prison Hulks: Floating Hells for Convicts
13 June 2024Convicts, illegal dissections, disease, all taking place on ships described as "Wicked Noah's Arks" where conditions were even worse than in...
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Shakespeare's Players: Burbage and Kempe
13 June 2024Among the male players who performed thousands of new plays in the Elizabethan repertory, the most famous were Richard Burbage and Will Kempe,...
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Civil War Rivals: Robert E. Lee vs Ulysses Grant
12 June 2024100 years ago, in the spring of 1864, the Overland Campaign ignited a ferocious clash between two titans of US military history: Ulysses S. Grant,...
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Moses & The Exodus
12 June 2024The story of Moses and the Exodus is one of the oldest and most well known in history. It is full of instantly recognisable episodes like the...
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The Early Years of the British Empire
11 June 2024The British weren't always imperial global players with an empire of viceroys, redcoats and industrialised trade systems. The early years of the...
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The Betrayal of Mary Queen of Scots
11 June 2024Mary Queen of Scots had a life that resembled a Game of Thrones plot: she had awful taste in men, and a cousin in Queen Elizabeth I of England,...
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Edward the Confessor
11 June 2024One of the last kings of Anglo-Saxon England, Edward the Confessor regained the throne for the House of Wessex and is the only English monarch to...
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