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The 300-year battle over free speech

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"Museums are magical places": Kavita Puri on a new initiative encouraging close encounters with history

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A thousand years ago, the Vikings had a shock encounter with Native Americans that ended in disaster

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Michael Wood on the struggle of memory against forgetting | "Place names are signposts to the past"

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Erik the Red: life of the week

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29 July: On this day in history

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Power & terror: a history of the nuclear age

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28 July: On this day in history

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Paint your own pot, like an ancient Etruscan

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The Minoans: everything you wanted to know

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27 July: On this day in history

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How a forgotten law helped women’s football conquer the world – but only by accident

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26 July: On this day in history

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Watergate is the ultimate American conspiracy – but what if we’ve been misunderstanding it all along?

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Fun, fear and flatbread: childhood in ancient Rome

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Riddle like an Anglo-Saxon monk

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How much do you know about Cleopatra?

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25 July: On this day in history

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One of ancient Rome’s most notorious emperors murdered his own mother, and there's a dark reason why

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24 July: On this day in history

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