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The Real Bridgerton
28 February 2023The first series of Bridgerton broke viewership records and became the biggest series on Netflix ever when it first came out. But a raunchy period...
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Sabotage, Nazis and the Atomic Bomb: Operation Gunnerside
28 February 2023In late February 1943, Norwegian commandos were given the details of their mission, Operation Gunnerside. Their job would be to sabotage the...
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The Race That Sold The Car To America
27 February 2023On a cold winter morning in February 1908, six cars lined up in Times Square, attempting to be the first to drive from New York to Paris, the long...
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The 1954 Guatemalan Coup D'état
27 February 2023As Cold War tensions escalated in the early 1950s, the White House became obsessed with one core goal: Containing Communism. Nowhere was this more...
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Enheduanna: The World's First Author
27 February 2023It's hard to imagine a time when we didn't write things down- on stone, papyrus or parchment. Who was the first to actually put 'pen to paper' and...
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The Death of Amy Dudley
27 February 2023On 6 September 1560, Amy Robsart Dudley died after falling down a staircase at Cumnor Place in Oxfordshire. But did she fall? Was she pushed? Or...
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Shirin: Heroine of Iran
26 February 2023Princess, Queen, and political influencer - Shirin should be a name as famed as Cleopatra, but how come so few know of her? Coming to influence in...
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Instant Noodles
26 February 2023In the year 2000 Japan was asked what its greatest invention of the twentieth century was. They had a LOT to choose from. The Walkman. The bullet...
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Birth of Cornwall
25 February 2023In the fifth century, Western Europe began remaking itself in the turmoil that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire. In south-west...
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Putin's Invasion of Ukraine: 1 Year On
24 February 2023One year ago today, on February 24th 2022, the world watched as Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite intelligence gathered...
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Wedding Dresses
24 February 2023In the UK, just over half of people above the age of 16 are married. Whether in a registry office, a place of worship or a remote beach somewhere...
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Russia & Ukraine: A Year of War
24 February 2023On the 24th of February, 2022, the world looked on in disbelief as Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. One year on he shows...
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