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Mary Seacole: Doctress of the Crimean War
18 October 2022Born Mary Jane Grant in the colony of Kingston, Jamaica, in November 1805, Mary would later become a businesswoman, traveller and healer....
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Medieval Pubs
18 October 2022For centuries, the pub has played a central role in our lives and communities. Throughout Britain, there are many pubs saying that they are the...
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Black Georgians
18 October 2022Who were Ignatius Sancho, Dido Elizabeth Belle and Francis Barber?
Between 10,000 and 30,000 black people lived in Britain during the...
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Britain's Worst Prime Minister
17 October 2022Could Liz Truss be Britain's worst Prime Minister? As the political scene in the UK hurtles into further disarray, Dan gets together historians...
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The US Marines' Pacific War
17 October 2022When US Marines landed on the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific, in August 1942, they were taking part in the first US ground offensive of...
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Battle of Midway
17 October 2022The Battle of Midway has gone down in history as a key turning point in the Pacific Campaign of the Second World War. In June 1942, the US Navy...
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Female Sodomy
17 October 2022Few cases of same-sex acts between women are known in early modern Europe. Yet in the Southern Netherlands, some 25 women were charged with...
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
16 October 2022In October 1962 the world came very close to annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis. During the autumn of 1962, a U2 reconnaissance aircraft...
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End of Stone Age Orkney
16 October 2022Around 5200 years ago, during the Neolithic period, when farming first took hold, Orkney was a hugely influential cultural centre. Yet, as Europe...
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Eco Farming
16 October 2022George Washington Carver is well known to Americans as the Peanut Man. It’s been written of him that ‘peanuts were like paintbrushes: They...
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Africans in Medieval Europe
15 October 2022Were sub-Saharan Africans present in Medieval Europe? Despite their absence from many histories, they were. Arriving as traders, as explorers, as...
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Henrietta Maria: The Most Hated Queen Consort?
14 October 2022What does it take to get the reputation as one of the least popular queens in history?
Should we remember Henrietta Maria as the wife of the...
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