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Before Rome: The Truth About Late Iron Age Britain
7 April 2022Roman connections with Britain stretch back to (at least) the mid 1st century BC. But what has archaeology revealed about the Late Iron Age...
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Recreating the Viking World in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
6 April 2022Assassin's Creed: Valhalla has brought the Viking Age to life in stunning detail, and now the game is even being used as an educational...
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Monks: Medieval Masters of Invention
6 April 2022In medieval times it was monks who were the masters of invention. They were the most educated members of society who saw scientific and...
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Tuskegee Airmen: A WW2 Pilot's Story
6 April 2022The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in American military history. They faced discrimination and segregation at...
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Cold War Submarine Warrior
5 April 2022Eric Thompson has had his finger literally on the nuclear button. He joined the Royal Navy submarine service in the early days of the Cold War. He...
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Rapa Nui: The Truth About Easter Island
5 April 20221,900 miles west of South America and 1,250 miles from any other population centre, Easter Island - or Rapa Nui - is world famous for its...
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The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures
4 April 2022In 1888 Louis Le Prince shot the world’s first motion picture in Leeds, England. In 1890, weeks before the public unveiling of his camera and...
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The Taj Mahal & the Emperor Who Built It
4 April 2022The Taj Mahal was commissioned 390 years ago by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. But what can...
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War In Space
4 April 2022On November 15 2021 Russia tested an anti-satellite weapon, shattering one of their own satellites into over a thousand pieces. This space debris...
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The Foundations of Modern India
3 April 2022The greatest anti-imperial rebellion of the nineteenth century, The Indian Rebellion of 1857, witnessed mass violence against the British. Ninety...
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Spacesuits
3 April 2022Creating a successful spacesuit was one of the biggest challenges in man's quest to land on the moon. And, it required borrowing skills from some...
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The Symposium: How To Party Like An Ancient Greek
3 April 2022In Ancient Greece, the symposium was no ordinary after-dinner drinking party, but one in which the Hellenic men of society got together to wine,...
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