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Think you know everything about the history of Thanksgiving? Here’s 21 facts that will prove you wrong

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What was the Habsburg jaw?

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Star witness: how the Royal Observatory transformed our understanding of astronomy and time

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What causes cultures to decline and fall?

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Long before Dracula, an ancient Mesopotamian civilisation raised the world's first vampires

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How 1066 altered England’s fate FOREVER

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Christopher Marlowe: life of the week

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Who won the crusades? The causes, death toll, and number of medieval holy wars explained

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Beyond the podcast: Jane Austen

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Fake news and the Dreyfus affair: the media-fuelled scandal that divided France

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Uprising: the Civil Wars untangled

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Did Hitler have a secret Jewish grandfather? Our DNA research has solved the mystery

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Did he photograph the ghost of a president? Meet the scheming Victorian who exploited a grieving America

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What does Hitler’s DNA really tell us?

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Why do ‘wicked’ witches wear pointed hats? The real history explained

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Mutilated corpses and undead mothers-in-law: vampire epidemics through history

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The REAL history behind Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and more

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Best history books 2025: BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year

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Step inside the ancient Roman empire's gladiatorial arenas, and witness 24 hours of shocking violence

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After Franco: Spain's miraculous transition to democracy

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