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Napoleon
3 May 2021He is widely remembered as one of the most exceptional military commanders that the world has ever seen, a man whose influence was so pervasive that...
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The Truth About The Huns
2 May 2021The Huns! The name of this ancient people triggers a multiplicity of responses and evokes a number of images (nearly all of them negative). They...
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Amend: The Fight for America
2 May 2021Take a deep dive into the remaking of the American Constitution and the 14th amendment created in the wake of the American Civil War. The 14th...
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The Olympic Games
2 May 2021The most famous sporting event in the world is upon us, so it's only right that we consider what do we know about the ancient origins of the games...
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The Death of Hitler
1 May 2021Did Hitler shoot himself in the Führerbunker, or did he slip past the Soviets and escape to South America? There have been innumerable...
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Captain Cook: The Aboriginal Perspective
30 April 2021Captain Cook has been celebrated, wrongly, as the first European to discover Australia but many now believe it is time to reappraise his legacy...
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Operation Barbarossa
30 April 2021Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union on Sunday 22 June 1941 was one of the bloodiest military campaigns mankind has ever known. Now, BAFTA winning...
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Not Just the Tudors
29 April 2021When thinking about the 16th century the Tudor dynasty often comes to the fore, but the was so much more to this extraordinary period to be explored....
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The Battle of Okinawa
28 April 2021The last major confrontation of the Second World War and the largest amphibious assault of the Pacific theatre, the Battle of Okinawa ended in Allied...
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WW2: The Texel Uprising
28 April 2021In the dying days of the Second World War, a group of Georgians rose up against their German overlords on the Dutch island of Texel. Thousands of...
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Blood and Iron: The German Empire
27 April 2021German unification in 1871 immediately altered the balance of power in Europe and across the world, but what did its existence and expansion in...
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Chernobyl: Memories of a Survivor
26 April 2021On April 26th 1986 reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded sending a vast plume of radioactive material into the atmosphere, but what...
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