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The Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis
15 August 2021During the Second World War, a special commando unit was formed in Britain from Jewish refugees from Germany, Austria and other parts of occupied...
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Palaces in Paradise: Centres of the Persian World
15 August 2021Persepolis is arguably the most famous ancient site associated with the Achaemenid Persian Empire, but it certainly wasn’t the only...
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The Fall of the Aztec Empire
14 August 2021In August 1521 after a last stand on the steps of their temple buildings, the Aztec defenders of Tenochtitlan surrendered to the Spanish forces of...
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Fertility & Childbirth: The Great Leveller
14 August 2021Giving birth in the middle ages was a dangerous time for women. It had no regard for class, wealth, or status. It could even have been more dangerous...
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Escaping the Berlin Wall
13 August 2021There were many attempts to escape over and under the Berlin Wall but Tunnel 29 was highly unusual for tunnelling into East Berlin rather than out to...
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US Withdrawal from Afghanistan with Rory Stewart
13 August 2021The current withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan raises a lot of questions about the conflict. Why are they withdrawing now? Was there a better...
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Alessandro de' Medici, Black Prince of Florence
12 August 2021In the cut-throat world of Renaissance Florence, Alessandro - the illegitimate son of a Duke and a mixed-race servant - attempts to reassert the...
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Gallipoli: What Led to Britain's WW1 Disaster?
12 August 2021What does the price of wheat and global food supplies have to do with one of the greatest disasters in the history of warfare? Why was the decision...
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Pompeii’s Indian Statuette
12 August 2021Among Pompeii’s great wealth of surviving artefacts is one with a rich globe trotting history that only goes to emphasise the interconnected nature...
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England's Great Viking Battle
11 August 2021On 11 August 991 one of the most important anglo-Viking battles took place near Maldon in Essex. This clash was immortalised in one of the finest...
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The Korean War
11 August 2021Sandwiched between the Second World War and the conflict in Vietnam, the Korean War has often been termed 'The Forgotten War' in the United States....
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Royal Mistresses
10 August 2021The role of the royal mistress may, on the face of it, seem a simple position but in reality, there was a lot more to being a royal mistress than it...
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