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Nixon in Moscow: The Kitchen Debate
13 July 2023Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev. Leading figures of the United States and the Soviet Union respectively, in a verbal debate about capitalism...
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Elizabethan Rivals: Francis Bacon & Edward Coke
13 July 2023As Queen Elizabeth I lays dying, King James VI of Scotland is waiting to accede to the throne of England. But who will thrive and who will fall...
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The Picts: Scourge of Rome
12 July 2023Emerging around the 3rd century CE and later designated official adversaries of the Roman Empire, the Picts wreaked havoc across the northern...
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Fish & Chips: The Unexpected Origins of Britain's Favourite Dish
12 July 2023Fish and Chips. About 382 million portions of the iconic national dish are consumed every year. That works out to around 6 servings per person,...
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Russia & USA: The 100-Year Cold War
11 July 2023The Cold War was defined by the antagonism between two world superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union. They relied on proxy wars,...
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Victorian Baby Farming Killer: Amelia Dyer
11 July 2023In Victorian Britain, there was no formalised state adoption. Instead, desperate mothers paid other families to take their newborns. This tragic...
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How To Dress in the Middle Ages
11 July 2023What clothes would you have worn in the Middle Ages? What were the most fashionable hairstyles? How did your clothing denote social status? How...
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The North Pole Scandal
10 July 2023In the autumn of 1909, the American explorer Frederick Cook arrived in Copenhagen, claiming to have become the first person to reach the North...
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LSD in New York: Research, Recreation and Radicalism
10 July 2023Why should we associate LSD and its psychedelic effects with New York as much as we associate it with San Francisco? What use did the CIA think...
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Francis Drake's Discovery of West Coast America
10 July 2023In the summer of 1579, Francis Drake had to land in a ‘fair and good bay’ on the western coast of the New World when his ship - The Golden...
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War Time Origins of the NHS
10 July 20232023 marks 75 years of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. Often heralded as one of the greatest post-war institutions, providing free...
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Operation Mincemeat
9 July 2023The most audacious deception operation of WWII. On the 30th of April, 1943, the corpse of a 'Major Martin' washed up near the Spanish city of...
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