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History’s sexiest revolutionary? Meet the mesmerising general whose charms helped win a war

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Who should decide the stories museums tell?

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Who was REALLY buried at Sutton Hoo? The secrets behind the famous helmet

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Who stole the Tudor crown?

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Elizabeth I’s shadowy spy network was tasked with uncovering secret conspiracies. Here’s what it found

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The librarian who stole KGB secrets

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Who was Roscoe Conkling? The real story of how US politics’ ‘spoils system’ met its match

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The VIKING king of England: the story of King Cnut and the Danish conquest of 1016

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It was Operation Unthinkable: Churchill's "impossible" plan to start World War 3

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Nellie Bly: life of the week

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The improbable alliance that defeated Hitler

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I met two survivors of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. This is their story

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Remember, remember: the legacy of the Gunpowder Plot

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Frederick Douglass escaped enslavement in 1838 – but here's why he was still far from true freedom

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"Imagine starting a life with so little": the stories of South Asians in Britain

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“I hope I would have defended the Nazis at Nuremberg”

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Who was Hermann Göring? The truth about Hitler’s drug-fuelled enforcer who met his downfall at Nuremberg

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The Nuremberg Trials: the real history behind the post-WW2 tribunal that brought Nazi leaders to justice

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Was Robin Hood ACTUALLY real? The real history explained

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Five partitions that shaped South Asia

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