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Henry VIII's Courtier, Sir Thomas Wyatt
17 March 2022No one represented the complexities of the court of Henry VIII better than Sir Thomas Wyatt, a skilled diplomat who was forced to live with the...
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Saint Patrick
17 March 2022Man, myth or legend... who was the real Saint Patrick? Did he really banish all the snakes from Ireland? Where does the shamrock tradition come...
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What Is an Oligarch?
17 March 2022The use of the word ‘Oligarch’ has been increasingly rampant across international news outlets since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine just weeks...
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Beekeeping with Bez from the Happy Mondays
17 March 2022Bez from the Happy Mondays: dancer, rockstar and...beekeeper?!
Bez, who has kept bees for more than seven years, shares some hilarious...
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The Steam Engine and Simultaneous Invention
16 March 2022The revolution in speed ground to a halt in the 1960s. The previous half-century saw great leaps in how quickly people could get from place to...
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Putin's Rise to Power
16 March 2022In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we wanted to take a closer look at Russian President, Vladimir Putin's rise to power. We've dug...
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Steam Engines and Transport Innovators
16 March 2022The revolution in speed ground to a halt in the 1960s. The previous half-century saw great leaps in how quickly people could get from place to...
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Genetic Engineering
16 March 2022Over the course of only half a century, genetic engineering has developed from an intellectual concept to a medical reality. Yet the ethical and...
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Recreating the Viking World in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
15 March 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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The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Explained
15 March 2022March 15th 44BC is perhaps the most notorious date in all of ancient history. On that fateful day, the Ides of March, 55-year-old Roman dictator...
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The KGB in Ukraine
14 March 2022The KGB was the main security agency for the Soviet Union. Tasked with surveillance and rooting out dissidents, religious practitioners and...
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The Real Cyrano de Bergerac
14 March 2022One of the world's much loved stage and screen characters has just returned to the cinema in a new film version starring Peter Dinklage. But...
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