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The Windrush Generation & Scandal
21 June 2023The journey of the Empire Windrush that docked in Essex with 1,027 passengers & at least two stowaways on 22nd June 1948 has come to define a...
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Kitchens
21 June 2023Who invented the Kitchen? It might seem silly to ask that but there is in fact one kitchen that people point to as the mother-of-all-kitchens. It...
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The Titanic Wreck
20 June 2023In 1912 Titanic departed on her first and last voyage from Southampton, sinking over 2 miles to the bottom of the dark North Atlantic Ocean,...
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Dick Pics: The History
20 June 2023Depictions of dicks have been an obsession in art for as long as art has been around, but the act of sending a real life image of ones penis is a...
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The Crusades and Ireland
20 June 2023Ireland has long been overlooked in the context of crusading. It has not only been largely absent from accounts of crusades and crusading, it has...
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George VI and Elizabeth, Queen Mother
19 June 2023This episode brings the marriage of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother to life, from the uproar of King Edward VIIIs abdication...
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The Long Death of Slavery
19 June 2023We celebrate abolition - in the United States during the Civil War and on Juneteenth, in Haiti after the revolution, and in the British Empire...
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Elizabeth I’s Royal Tours
19 June 2023Every spring and summer of her 44 year reign, Queen Elizabeth I insisted that her court go "on progress" — royal visits to towns and...
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5 Assassinations That Changed History
19 June 2023Assassins have been plotting, murdering, and executing for thousands of years—from the famed Ides of March to forgotten British Prime Ministers....
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The Stonewall Uprising
18 June 2023Pride month happens in June in commemoration of the Stonewall Uprising that took place in the summer of 1969 after police undertook a routine raid...
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Pride Flag: Birth of a Rainbow
18 June 2023The first ever Pride Flag was 30 ft high and 60 ft wide. A suitably epic beginning for a flag that has had a massive impact on the...
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The Picts
18 June 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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