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From the Punjab to the Western Front
24 November 2021Over a million Indian soldiers served during the First World War, but many of the records of the soldiers who fought valiantly for the Allied...
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Medieval Treasure: What To Do If You Find Some
23 November 2021If you're lucky enough to find some 'treasure', you're legally obliged to report it. A coroner then decides whether it's actually treasure. Yes,...
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The British Monarchy
23 November 2021The British Monarchy is a thread that has run throughout the history of Britain but over the centuries it has been a constantly evolving...
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Henry VIII's Wives on Stage: Six - The Musical
22 November 2021Since its first outing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017, the stage musical Six has become a worldwide theatre sensation. In it, the six...
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The Nazi Hunt for Mona Lisa
22 November 2021During the Second World War, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa left her usual position in the Louvre, Paris. From 1939 to 1945, the portrait was moved...
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The Assassination of JFK: Explained
22 November 2021Everyone who was alive at the time remembers the day President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas on the 22 November 1963. On this...
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Caracalla's Macedonian Phalanx
21 November 2021Alexander the Great and Caracalla. One often considered among the most successful military commanders of all time, the other, one of the worst...
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Greg Jenner: Ask a Historian
21 November 2021When and why did we start keeping hamsters as pets? When was sign language first used in the UK? If you were planning a bank heist, which historical...
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Why The Middle Ages Matter with Ian Mortimer
20 November 2021The Medieval periods' impact on the world and how we see it today is often overlooked. From culture, society, and technology, the horizons of England...
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Women on the British Front Line
19 November 2021Whilst battles were fought across the globe, in Britain, the anti aircraft gun sites acted as the British frontline. From 1941, they were also the...
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Searching for the Lost of World War One
19 November 2021At the end of the World War One, around one million citizens of the British Empire had been lost, and the whereabouts of about half of these was...
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Did Thomas Seymour Groom Elizabeth Tudor?
18 November 2021In 1547, the 14-year-old future Queen Elizabeth I is living with her step-mother Queen Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour, uncle to...
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