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How Demand for Cadavers Led to the Infamous Burke and Hare Murders

“When you receive it, your son will be gone” Stalingrad’s Last Letters

3 Things We Learned from Meet the Normans with Eleanor Janega

Don’t Try This Tudor Health Hack: Bathing in Distilled Puppy Juice

At Kalkriese, Archaeology Reveals Evidence of Rome’s Most Famous Defeat

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Honouring the Legacy: D-Day’s Enduring Story in 2025

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Why did Magna Carta get written in the first place?

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Edward II: England’s Worst Monarch?

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Newgrange and the Secrets of Prehistoric Ireland

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Hands-on With the Only Gladiator Helmet Ever Found in Britain

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Richard III is Given a Voice in History Hit Documentary

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History Hit Film on Archaeology at Glencoe Reveals Secrets of 1692 Massacre

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What Really Happened at Agincourt?

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Newgrange and the Secrets of Prehistoric Ireland

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Hands-on With the Only Gladiator Helmet Ever Found in Britain

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At Kalkriese, Archaeology Reveals Evidence of Rome’s Most Famous Defeat

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Where to Find the World’s Oldest Map of the Biblical Middle East

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Mount Nebo: An Unparalleled View of Ancient History

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Do you know who built Petra?

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Puzzle Over These Ancient Greek Paradoxes

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In Ancient Rome, Gladiators Rarely Fought to the Death

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Medieval

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Why did Magna Carta get written in the first place?

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Edward II: England’s Worst Monarch?

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Richard III is Given a Voice in History Hit Documentary

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History Hit Film on Archaeology at Glencoe Reveals Secrets of 1692 Massacre

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What Really Happened at Agincourt?

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Why Chillingham Is Known as Britain’s Most Haunted Castle

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Roaming Historical East Sussex on the 1066 Country Walk

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Why Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel is a Medievalist’s Guilty Pleasure

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Discover tales of Endurance

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How European Artists Shaped the Image of the Witch

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Don’t Try This Tudor Health Hack: Bathing in Distilled Puppy Juice

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Why Did Elizabethan Merchants Start Weighing Their Coins?

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‘Old Coppernose’: Henry VIII and the Great Debasement

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How Henry VII Used English Coinage to Project Power

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The Royal Mint: Oliver Cromwell’s Depiction as a Roman Emperor

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A Timeline of Feudal Japan’s ‘Nanban’ Trade with Europeans

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Why Did Henry VIII Dissolve the Monasteries in England?

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Historical Galleries

Geronimo: A Life in Pictures

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Before the Wright Brothers: History’s Early Flying Machines

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Iron Age Brochs of Scotland

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The Life of Queen Elizabeth II in Pictures

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Inside the Space Shuttle

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The Moon Landing in Pictures

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Then & Now: Photos of Historic Landmarks Through Time

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British Stamps: A History in Pictures

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Katherine Johnson – A Life in Quotes

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10 Photos That Changed the World

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Who Built the Nazca Lines and Why?

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John F. Kennedy: His Life in Pictures

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The Olmec Colossal Heads

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Pictish Stones: The Last Evidence of an Ancient Scottish People

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‘Painted People’: Who Were the Picts?

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Enola Gay: The B-29 Airplane That Changed the World

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7 of the Strangest Cars Ever Invented

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10 Eerie Underwater Photos of the Titanic Wreck

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Lost Cities: A Victorian Explorer’s Photos of Old Maya Ruins

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10 of the Most Spectacular Paintings from the British Royal Collection

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Lost in Antarctica: Photos of Shackleton’s Ill-Fated Ross Sea Party

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After the Fighting Stops: Women and the Unseen Wounds of War

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In Photos: What Happened at Chernobyl?

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Revolutions

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The Royal Mint: Isaac Newton and the Trial of the Pyx Plate

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1848: The Year of Revolutions

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What Prompted the Boston Tea Party?

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10 Facts About Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon Bonaparte – Founder of Modern European Unification?

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How did Napoleon Bonaparte Rise to Power in 1799?

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Why Was 2 December Such a Special Day for Napoleon?

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How Did James Gillray Attack Napoleon as the ‘Little Corporal’?

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Honouring the Legacy: D-Day’s Enduring Story in 2025

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The First Ever Documentary Feature was an Antarctic Survival Story

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The Adventures of Mrs. Chippy, Shackleton’s Seafaring Cat

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New 3D Images Reveal the Antarctic Wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s Ship

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Frank Hurley’s Photographs of Shackleton’s Disastrous Endurance Expedition

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‘By Endurance We Conquer’: Who Was Ernest Shackleton?

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“When you receive it, your son will be gone” Stalingrad’s Last Letters

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Young Stalin Made His Name as a Bank Robber

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Discoveries and Exploration

8 Crucial Inventions of the American Industrial Revolution

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Was George Mallory Actually the First Man to Climb Everest?

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6 Sumerian Inventions That Changed the World

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Chanel No 5: The Story Behind the Icon

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10 Facts About Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z

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6 Facts About Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavour

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Scott vs Amundsen: Who Won the Race to the South Pole?

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Hiram Bingham III and the Forgotten Inca City of Machu Picchu

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Historical Mysteries

Flannan Isle Mystery: When Three Lighthouse Keepers Vanished Forever

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The Mystery of the Lost Roanoke Colony

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The Greatest Lost Shipwrecks Yet To Be Discovered

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Genghis Khan: The Mystery of His Lost Tomb

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What Happened to the Lost Village of Imber?

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What Messages Are Hidden in the Armada Portraits of Elizabeth I?

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Who Were the Princes in the Tower?

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Honouring the Legacy: D-Day’s Enduring Story in 2025

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Legends and Outlaws

How Al Capone became one of the world’s most notorious gangsters

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10 Facts About Ching Shih, China’s Pirate Queen

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10 of the Most Famous Female Pirates in History

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10 Famous Outlaws of The Wild West

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The Wild West’s Most Wanted: 10 Facts About Billy the Kid

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10 Facts About Calamity Jane

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10 Facts About Viking Warrior Ivar the Boneless

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6 of the Most Notorious Female Mobsters in History

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