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In the summer of 1940, the skies over Britain filled with the sounds as of engines and gunfire,...
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How Kissinger transformed the Cold War
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Famously branded "mad, bad and dangerous to know", Lord Byron captured the imagination – and...
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Horrible Histories: 15 years of death, poo and talking rats
Since it first hit TV screens back in 2009, Horrible Histories has brought Terry Deary and Martin...
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Medieval medicine: everything you wanted to know
What would a medieval first aid kit have contained? What were the era's strangest cures? And is...
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Death & hubris in west Africa: how two British expeditions met with disaster
In the early 19th century, two different British expeditions headed into the interior of West...
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Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – Oswald’s second murder
In part 2 of a special bonus episode of our Conspiracy series, Rob Attar and Gerald Posner delve...
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Clotilda: the last slave ship to America
The transatlantic slave trade was formally abolished in both Britain and the US in 1807 and 1808...
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History behind the headlines: the Bengal famine
In the latest episode of History Behind the Headlines, Hannah Skoda and Rana Mitter are joined by...
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Spying in the Troubles: the murky world of double agents in Northern Ireland
The Troubles in Northern Ireland was a difficult, bloody period, which lasted for almost 30...
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Welsh mythology: everything you wanted to know
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Tying the knot: 500 years of wedded bliss and marital misery
Over the last 500 years, countless people in England and Wales have decided to tie the knot. But...
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Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – 95 per cent certain?
The killing of President John F Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963 is one of the defining events...
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The British empire's divisive legacy
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The name of medieval leader and military commander Saladin has gone down in history for unifying...
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