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The Sex Life of William 'Braveheart' Wallace
22 February 2024If you've seen the film Braveheart, you might have certain expectations about the real history of William Wallace.
Separating fact from...
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Britain's Secret Expedition to Antarctica
21 February 2024In 1943, just as the Second World War was raging across the globe, the British government launched a top-secret mission to the Antarctic....
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The Real History of Sex Dolls
20 February 2024The origins of the modern sex doll are shrouded in myth.
Some say they came from crafty sailors in the 18th century, a long way from home...
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Sweyn Forkbeard: First Viking King of England
20 February 2024Sweyn Forkbeard was the first Viking King of England, however you'd be forgiven for potentially forgetting who he was given he was only King for...
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Harold Godwinson: The Last Anglo-Saxon King
20 February 2024Dr Eleanor Janega and Matt Lewis uncover the stories of the protagonists and events that led up to the Battle of Hastings. There’s Harold...
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Tulsa Massacre: Violence, Resilience & Rebirth
19 February 2024The city of Tulsa is perhaps best known in history books for the events of 1921. In 36 hours, hundreds of residents of the Greenwood district were...
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The Rise and Fall of Britain's Islands
19 February 2024How did Britain's islands become woven into our collective cultural psyche? Traversing Irish poetry, Renaissance drama and Restoration utopias,...
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Freedom Is The Greatest Treasure: Mathurin Desmarestz
19 February 2024The new season of "Echoes of History" features Ubisoft's new game: "Skull and Bones.
There are opportunistic pirates and those who have...
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Greek Myths: The Furies
19 February 2024The gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece have been written about for thousands of years. From their home atop Mount Olympus, they reigned over the...
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The Real Hannibal Lecter
18 February 2024At the tender age of 23, Thomas Harris, author of The Silence of the Lambs, was sent to interview a convicted murderer inside a Mexican prison....
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The Last Gay Men Executed in Britain
18 February 2024Why was Georgian Britain's penal code so bloodthirsty when it came to homosexuality? Was Britain unusually cruel in this regard? And does this...
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Ice Age Britain: Finding the First Homo sapiens
17 February 2024Roughly 40,000 years ago, Ice Age Britain was undergoing a transformation.
The first modern humans, Homo sapiens, were arriving and...
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