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Mafia Women

Who was Pupetta Maresca? And what did she do to become the first woman in Italy to be prohibited from having a funeral?

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Prosthetics in Antiquity

Prosthetics - an artificial feature or body part commonly used to either help restore functions of lost limbs, or change a person's appearance....

Shakespeare’s Henry V

This week marks 600 years since the death of King Henry V, perhaps best known for his military successes during the Hundred Years War against...

Taiwan: China's Ukraine?

Located just 100 miles off the coast of mainland China, the nation of Taiwan sits in the so-called 'first island chain' - a group of US-friendly...

Sports Bra

REAL LIFE INVENTOR ALERT!!!

Two jockstraps cleverly sewn together. That was how the very first sports bra was made in 1977. The product...

Robin Hood

Robin Hood is one of the most famous legends of British history, but did he exist and if so who was he? Gareth Morgan, Learning Development...

Britain After Rome

What really happened in Britain after the fall of Rome? How did people adapt to their new lives? How were new identities formed, and eventually...

Charles II's Mistresses

Lucy Walter, Barbara Palmer, Louise Kérouaille and Nell Gwynn. These are the names of just a key few of King Charles II’s mistresses.

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The March on Washington

On August 28, 1963, some 200,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to protest the continuing inequalities faced...

Leonardo da Vinci

Painter, scientist, engineer, inventor, anatomist, sculptor, architect, urban planner, botanist, musician, philosopher, writer : Leonardo Da Vinci...

A 16th Century Celebrity Executioner

The German executioner Meister Frantz Schmidt kept a fascinating journal of all the executions, torture and punishments he administered between...

Al-Qaeda

Their attacks of September 11 2001 sparked a War on Terror which has a legacy that very much lasts to this day, but where did Al-Qaeda come from,...