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Jewish History of Venice
25 March 2024Essential to any history of Venice during its glory days is the story of its Jewish population. Venice gave the world the word ghetto....
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D.B. Cooper & the 70s Hijacking Craze
25 March 2024On 23 June 1972, a man boarded American Airlines Flight 119 in St Louis. He sat most of the way to Tulsa before donning a wig and a pair of gloves...
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The Salem Witch Trials
24 March 2024More than 200 accused, 20 executed and a village plagued with hysteria. Were the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and 1693 the work of superstition, a...
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Britain After the Ice Age: Star Carr
24 March 2024Over 13,000 years ago, Britain emerged from the ravages of the Ice Age as a changed land. Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who had adapted to cold...
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The Real Shogun: The English Navigator Who Became a Samurai
24 March 2024In the year 1600, a bedraggled English sailor and his sick and dying crewmates anchored off the coast of Kyushu, Japan. His name was William...
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King Henry II
22 March 2024One of the pivotal figures in Medieval history, King Henry II centralised royal power, instituted legal reforms and established common...
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Did the Cold War Ever End?
21 March 2024Would the Cold War have happened if the nuclear bomb was never created? How did Gorbachev, Reagan and Thatcher reduce tensions between the East...
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Abraham Lincoln's Sex Life
21 March 2024Abraham Lincoln is often thought of as the most loved president in America's history, but how much do we know about his personal...
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England's Worst Witch Trial: Pendle Witches
21 March 2024Inside the heavy walls of Lancaster Castle, the darkest & deadliest of English witch trials played out in 1612 - the Pendle Witch Trials. By the...
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Tudor Ladies-in-Waiting
21 March 2024For every Tudor Queen, their ladies-in-waiting were their confidantes, chaperones and intimate witnesses to their lives. These women were high...
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Great Wall of China
20 March 2024It's one of the most iconic structures in the world: The Great Wall of China.
But is it just one wall? And who built it and why? Today,...
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Atlantis
20 March 2024The fictional island of Atlantis has intrigued and eluded us for millennia. First mentioned in the works of Plato, it's a story that captures our...
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