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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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The Legacy of the Minoans
18 November 2021Minoan Crete has kept people captivated for millennia, appearing in countless modern cultural practices till this very day. But who are the Minoans?...
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The Magic Circle & Hoaxes in History
18 November 2021Hoaxes and magic were widespread in 18th century Britain. From a woman who claimed to birth rabbits, to a man who said he’d climb into a bottle in...
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The Nuremberg Trials
17 November 2021On 20 November 1945 the Nuremberg Trials began. In the Bavarian city of Nuremberg, a tribunal set about prosecuting prominent members of Nazi Germany...
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When the World's Armies Came to Salisbury Plain
17 November 2021During World War One, Britain and its empire mobilised soldiers on a hitherto unprecedented scale. That required a huge logistical effort to feed,...
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Sutton Hoo
16 November 2021Centuries ago, an Anglo-Saxon noble was buried within a 90-foot ship in a mound at Sutton Hoo. It serves as the richest burial ever found in northern...
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