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Warrior Women: Boudicca to Ukrainian Snipers

From Boudicca to Ukrainian snipers, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of...

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Nazi's Most Wanted: Assassin Hannie Schaft

Known among the Nazis as "the girl with the red hair," Hannie Schaft was a resistance fighter so...

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Oppenheimer

On a summer morning in 1945, a device known simply as 'Gadget' was detonated. An enormous...

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Black Boxes: Recording Airplanes' Final Moments

They can survive in lava for half an hour and accelerations of 3,400 Gs. Their beacons can be...

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Prigozhin: Putin's 'Favourite'

Russian history is defined by the rise and fall of favourites. Peter the Great had Menshikov, and...

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Napoleon

Did Napoleon really come from nothing and conquer everything? The release of the trailer for...

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The Picts: Scourge of Rome

Emerging around the 3rd century CE and later designated official adversaries of the Roman Empire,...

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Russia & USA: The 100-Year Cold War

The Cold War was defined by the antagonism between two world superpowers: the United States and...

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The North Pole Scandal: Frederick Cook vs Philip Gibbs

In the autumn of 1909, the American explorer Frederick Cook arrived in Copenhagen, claiming to...

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Dan Explains: Operation Mincemeat

On the 30th of April, 1943, the corpse of a 'Major Martin' washed up near the Spanish city of...

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Dan Explains: The Battle of Kursk

The Battle of Kursk in July and August of 1943 was the last major attempt by the Nazis to turn...

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The Creation of the NHS

75 years ago this week, the National Health Service was born. Launched by Aneurin Bevan on the...

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California Gold Rush

From the rings on our fingers to coins in our pockets and, for a select few, the medals hanging...

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Dan Explains: The Somme

The first day of The Somme remains the bloodiest day in the history of the British army; a symbol...

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Toto Koopman: Socialite, Vogue Model and WWII Spy

Toto Koopman was remarkable; she was a high society socialite who risked her life wining and...

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Great Fire of London

Why do we call the Great Fire of London in 1666 “great”? Was it because of the significant...

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Wagner vs Putin: A History of Russian Coups

On the 24th of June, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin and his paramilitary group Wagner carried out what...

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The 20th Century Arms Race

The 20th century heralded a revolution in how wars are fought. From military strategy and...

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The Windrush Generation & Scandal

The journey of the Empire Windrush that docked in Essex with 1,027 passengers & at least two...

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The Titanic Wreck

In 1912 Titanic departed on her first and last voyage from Southampton, sinking over 2 miles to...

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