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Bess's Hardwick Hall
20 April 2023Hardwick Hall is a triumph of Elizabethan architecture. Built in the late sixteenth century, its halls, corridors and staircases embody the...
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The First Toolmakers
20 April 2023Invention and innovation are two concepts that have propelled humankind forward for as long as people can remember - but who were the...
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Empire State Building
19 April 2023When it was completed in 1931, the Empire State Building became the tallest building in the world. While it has long been surpassed, it is still...
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Inventing Bond: Gadgets
19 April 2023Dagger shoes, Lipstick gas grenade, Razor rimmed hat, Milk bottle Grenade…Prosthetic Nipple.
We’re continuing our exploration of the...
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Britain's Maritime History
18 April 2023Is it even possible to imagine what Britain would have been without seafaring? Braving the waters beyond our harbours can be traced back eight and...
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Sutton Hoo
18 April 2023Centuries ago, an Anglo-Saxon noble was buried within a 90-foot ship in a mound at Sutton Hoo. It serves as the richest burial ever found in...
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Heirs, Affairs & Exiles: The Powderham Scandal
18 April 2023Why would a man embroil his own nephew in a sex scandal? What was it like for a Georgian man to have his affair with another man shared in the...
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The Mystery of the Frogman Lionel Crabb
17 April 2023On the night of the 19th of April, 1956, the decorated navy diver Lionel Crabb went missing. A veteran of the Second World War, Crabb had been...
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America's Top Secrets: Manhattan Project to Drone Warfare
17 April 2023Much of American history has been redacted. Since the World War 2, the number of secrets the US government has kept has grown exponentially. There...
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John Donne: England’s Greatest Love Poet
17 April 2023John Donne was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the...
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Colonising Nicaragua: William Walker
17 April 2023In the mid-19th century, William Walker led a group of fellow US Expansionists to Nicaragua, in an attempt to seize the country as their own. Some...
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The Koh-i-Noor Diamond
16 April 2023The enormous Cullinan Diamond will be on display at Charles III Coronation, but the diamond that's missing - the Koh-i-Noor - is the one that...
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