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The Renaissance Lute
27 May 2021The lute, with its double strings and beautiful decorative detail is a familiar feature of Renaissance paintings. In the sixteenth century, lute...
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Sinking the Bismarck
27 May 2021In May 1941 Nazi Germany's most powerful warship and pride of the Kriegsmarine the Bismarck slipped out of harbour and made its way to hunt Allied...
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Alexander the Great's First Persian Victory
26 May 2021If there had been a different outcome to the Battle of Granicus, we might never have heard about Alexander the Great. Taking place in 334 BC, this...
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Mary Anning: Palaeontology's Forgotten Pioneer
26 May 2021Born in Lyme Regis in 1799, Mary Anning was a pioneering palaeontologist and fossil collector whose story continues to inspire so many scientists...
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Vietnam War
26 May 2021With battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, and then defeat and public criticism for the United States in 1975, the Vietnam War became the...
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Hunting the Bismarck
25 May 2021In May 1941, the Royal Navy pursued Nazi Germany's largest battleship, the Bismarck, in the greatest chase story in the history of naval warfare....
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Mysteries of Cerne Abbas Giant
25 May 2021It's not often a discovery shocks archeologists, but the revelation that the Cerne Abbas Giant could've been created in the late Saxon period has...
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Origins of the English in India
24 May 2021In the late 16th century, a group of London merchants petitioned Queen Elizabeth I to allow them to build English trade in Asia. She granted a...
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The UK’s Top Diplomat on the State of the World
24 May 2021Sir Jeremy Greenstock served as a diplomat from the 1960s to the well into the 21st century and is someone who has been in the room when some of the...
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Invention of Torpedoes
24 May 2021When the self-propelled torpedo was invented in the late 19th century, it threatened to revolutionize naval warfare. The weapon was instrumental in...
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Martin Luther: Scourge of the Papacy
23 May 2021Martin Luther is one of the most extraordinary and consequential men of the last 500 years but was also a man keenly aware of his image and went to...
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Ancient Polynesia: Pioneers of the Pacific
22 May 2021Despite sporadic food sources and the dangers of the deep sea, the remote islands of the Pacific Ocean have been home to Polynesians for more than a...
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