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History
Jonathan Scott shares his top online resources for tracing your family and ancestors in...
What happened when the Romans invaded Britain in AD 43?
New BBC drama A Very British Scandal will catapult viewers into a vicious society...
Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel traces the history and legacy of NASA’s early attempts...
Iain MacGregor revisits some of the most dramatic events associated with the history of...
From the truth about handlebar moustaches to the slang that originated during airborne campaigns...
Hypocrite, reactionary, usurper, sex maniac: do the charges against Catherine the Great stand up...
Gang chief Billy Fullerton is the inspiration for the next villain in the drama....
Why is Nero thought of as a tyrant? All you need to know about...
It was the morning of 15 March 44 BC – the Ides of March....
How much do you know about the Romans? What language did they speak? Was...
Guy de la Bédoyère explores five stories of men and women who rebelled against...
Did Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, believe in feminism? The concept...
Two expert historians debate the mystery that has remained unsolved for the past 500...
Feared, reviled and revered, few military organisations have carried a reputation quite like the...
Military historian Patrick Bishop explores the experinces of ‘fighter boys’ of the RAF, lionised...
Were the Vikings really violent, godless pagans? Where did they live and how did...
How historically accurate is Yorgos Lanthimos's film about Queen Anne, The Favourite? Did Queen...
How much of the TV series Britannia is actually drawn from real events? Here,...
Adrian Goldsworthy, author of a biography of Augustus, reveals how Julius Caesar's teenage heir...
The end of decades of physical division in Berlin sparked diverse reactions in the...
Forty years ago, the UK found itself in the grip of a virus that...
They were central to the spread of the industrial revolution, helping to make Britain...
Russia's renowned female ruler is played by actress Helen Mirren in new TV series...
What are the key moments in Viking history? From the Lindisfarne raid to the...
On 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead on his hotel balcony...
David Woods follows the trail of Apollo 8 and the first men who went...
Flat-cap-wearing Birmingham gangster Thomas ‘Tommy’ Shelby and his motley crew are set to return...
They tortured, tricked and terrorised suspects into confessions, often with undisguised relish. So, asks...
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In the early 1900s, newfound empathy for avian creatures helped wildlife observation displace dispassionate...
An exhibition at Toronto's Bata Shoe Museum examines fashion's role in supporting social hierarchies...
Dr. Andy Wai Kan Yeung (pictured here, below) of the University of Hong Kong...
Briget and Chris Hart have been part of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony for...
We cannot help recommending this English language lesson, by Joey쌤, titled “중학교 3학년 천재(정사열)...
The Ig Nobel Prizes have again turned up in a crossword puzzle, this time as...
There’s something for almost everyone in this new study about an adventure involving ringtones...
In the same vein as Phaidon’s formidable Great Women Artists and African Artists, a...
Although research suggests the ancient Venus figurines were created as totems of survival amid...
Despite thousands of years of research and an unending fascination with marine creatures, humans...
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