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How Alcohol Built the British Empire
18 October 2021During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as the British Empire expanded across the globe an almost ubiquitous but often underappreciated...
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Mary I's Husband: Philip II of Spain
18 October 2021Philip II of Spain - the most powerful monarch of the early modern period - was married to Queen Mary Tudor from 1554 until her death in 1558. But...
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WW2: The Viking Commandos of Telemark
18 October 2021On 18 October 1942, a party of Norwegian agents were dropped into Telemark, Norway, for Operation Grouse. They were part of a mission to sabotage the...
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Dresden Survivor: Remembering Victor Gregg
17 October 2021On 12 October 2021 World War Two veteran Victor Gregg passed away peacefully in his sleep just before his 102 birthday. He was part of a unique...
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Caracalla: The Common Enemy of Mankind?
17 October 2021Often up there in the upper echelons of most articles listing Rome's worst emperors, it's fair to say that history has not been kind to...
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Operation Barbarossa: The Lost Diaries
16 October 2021Operation Barbarossa saw a clash of arms between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union of unprecedented scale and savagery, but what was it really...
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Bayeux Tapestry
16 October 2021The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the world’s most prominent pieces of medieval art. Depicting the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England, the...
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Climate Wars
15 October 2021As the planet heats up, competition for resources rises and populations migrate. Even without the impact of natural disasters it’s enough to raise...
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The Haitian Revolution
14 October 2021In 1791 the slaves of the French colony of Sant-Domingue rose up against their colonial masters and after a long and bloody struggle, defeated them...
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How Catherine of Aragon Learnt to be Queen
14 October 2021The Spanish infanta Catalina of Aragon was raised to be a Queen, betrothed at the age of three to the heir apparent of the English throne, Arthur...
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Ai Khanum: A Greek City in Afghanistan?
14 October 2021A theatre, a gymnasium and houses with colonnaded courtyards: these are the hallmarks of an Ancient Greek city. So what are they doing in the...
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The Battle of Hastings
13 October 2021On 14 October 1066, the armies of William, the Duke of Normandy, and the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson clashed near Hastings in one of the most...
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