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Richard III
2 October 2021Richard III of England is one of medieval history's most controversial figures. He is known to many as a tyrant, a sleazy, greedy king who even...
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WW2: Czech Resistance
1 October 2021Though excluded from decisions on their occupation in the Munich Agreement in 1938, the citizens of the new country of Czechoslovakia were by no...
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Æthelred the Unready
30 September 2021His 38 years as king make him one of the longest-ruling monarchs in English history, and yet he is remembered as unsuccessful, naive and overly harsh...
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Sir Thomas More
30 September 2021Who was Thomas More - Knight, Chancellor and Martyr? His life is paradoxical, with More regarded as both saint and persecutor, Humanist...
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The Oldest Human Footprints in North America
30 September 2021This week our understanding of when humans first inhabited the North American continent has been turned on its head … by a set of c.22,000 year...
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Bond, The Secret Service & Exporting Britain's Influence
29 September 2021James Bond is a character that has come to define a certain kind of Britishness but what, if any, role does 007 play in the real world of...
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Drones: A History
29 September 2021Although the use of drones has become well established and publicised in recent years, the history of unmanned aircraft stretches all the way back to...
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James Bond
28 September 2021James Bond is one of the most successful films and book franchises of all time and with the arrival of a new addition to the canon it seemed the...
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Medieval Science
28 September 2021The word 'medieval' is often used to describe backward ideas and opinions, but why is this the case? The middle ages was a time of life-changing...
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The Last Witches of England
27 September 2021In 1682 three women, Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards, from the town of Bideford were tried and hanged as witches. They were...
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The Gunpowder Plot: Tudor Origins
27 September 2021The Gunpowder Plot is one of the hinge events of British history - an act of terror the roots of which stretch back to the Tudor period and Henry...
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Hitler’s North African Genocide
27 September 2021When we think of the Holocaust, we tend to think about Europe and Germany. However, during World War II, Hitler's antisemitic race laws also...
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