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Lunar Rover
15 June 2022The success of the Apollo Missions relied on hugely imaginative engineering. There is perhaps no better example of this than the first off-planet...
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Treasures of The Royal Mint
14 June 2022A history of British monarchs in coins. With a history stretching over 1,100 years, The Royal Mint has forged a fascinating story through the...
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Urban Life in Medieval Cities
14 June 2022Between 1000 and 1500, European towns and cities started to take shape, impacting the lives of millions of people as different cultural, social...
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The Femme Fatale & The French President
14 June 2022This is the story of Marguerite Steinheil, the woman who shook Paris at the turn of the 20th century with one scandal after the next…one of...
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Falklands40: Identifying the Unmarked Graves
13 June 2022Argentina surrendered to British forces in Port Stanley on the 14th of June 1982. The Falklands conflict was over. In the months after the...
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How to Become Queen in Early Modern Europe
13 June 2022In Early Modern Europe, Queens did not come fully formed. Rather, a series of rites, rituals and ceremonies transformed a hesitant bride into a...
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Food as a Weapon of War
13 June 2022Russia has been accused of using food as a weapon of war in Ukraine, pushing up to 49 million people into famine.
Further afield, Putin's...
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Falklands40: Return to Mount Tumbledown
12 June 2022The Battle of Mount Tumbledown was an attack by the British Army and the Royal Marines on the heights overlooking Stanley, the Falkland Islands'...
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The Death of Alexander the Great: Explained
12 June 2022Alexander the Great’s untimely death at Babylon in 323 BC triggered an unprecedented crisis across his continent-spanning empire.
Within a...
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Plastic Surgery
12 June 2022As a result of all the military and medical advancements of World War One there were more seriously injured and disfigured soldiers surviving the...
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The Wars of the Roses: The Uncrowned Queen
11 June 2022Matt Lewis concludes his series on the Wars of the Roses with a look at a figure who is often divisive and misunderstood, despised or loved, but...
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Disaster Before D-Day: Exercise Tiger
10 June 2022The D-Day landings of June 6 1944 were the largest amphibious landing in the history of warfare, and are famed as a major turning point towards...
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