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Russia's Threat to Invade Ukraine
3 February 2022Amid Moscow’s increasing build-up of troops along the Ukrainian border and the preparation of infrastructure for a possible invasion, tensions...
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Building the Eden Project with Sir Tim Smit
3 February 2022Since the Eden Project opened its doors in 2001, more than 19 million people have visited and it’s contributed more than £1.9 billion to the...
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Battle of Britain: What Were the Germans Thinking?
2 February 2022Were the German Luftwaffe the mighty Goliath to Britain's David during the Battle of Britain, or were they in fact more evenly matched? And what on...
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The Troubles: How It Started
2 February 2022With Kenneth Branagh film, Belfast, hitting cinemas - we run down the historical background of the early years of the decades-long conflict in...
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The Vikings from East to West
1 February 2022To mark the US release of our very own Dr Cat Jarman’s incredible book River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk...
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The Forgotten Einstein
1 February 2022John von Neumann is one of the most influential scientists to have ever lived, a man who was in his day as well-known as Einstein and considered...
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Introducing: On Jimmy's Farm
31 January 2022Join celebrity farmer, ecologist and conservationist, Jimmy Doherty, on his farm as he talks to eco-experts and well-known faces about trying to...
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Antwerp: Renaissance Europe's Dazzling Sea Port
31 January 2022Antwerp during the Renaissance was as sensational as nineteenth-century Paris or twentieth-century New York. For half the sixteenth century, it...
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Bloody Sunday: 50 Years On
31 January 2022Half a century ago on January 30 1972, British soldiers shot dead 14 unarmed protesters during a civil rights march in the Bogside area of Derry,...
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The Execution of Charles I
31 January 2022On the 30th January, 372 years ago, Charles I, king of Great Britain and Ireland, stepped out of the Banqueting House in Whitehall, to be beheaded...
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Alexander's Successors at War: The Spartan Adventurer
30 January 2022It’s here! Today is the publication date of Tristan’s first book, Alexander’s Successors at War: The Perdiccas Years. Focussing in on...
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After Nuremberg
30 January 2022The 1950s in West Germany saw a sharp decline in Nazi war crimes investigations and trials. Instead, there were campaigns for amnesties and...
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