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Ancient history
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Pliny the Younger’s lawn
Emperor Constantine’s legacy: Theocracy
Five fascinating facts about the Greek god Apollo
Ravaged, ruined and removed – the lost buildings of the world
From Boxgrove Man to Stonehenge: England’s prehistory explored
All about Avebury
Rome and her neighbours: A tale of survival
Why is King Arthur a giant of history?
Archaeology
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Pompeii in pictures
Human history and geology at Dorset’s World Heritage Coast
Mary Anning and the primeval monsters
Rediscovering Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre
Excavations on the Cotswold Way
Aviation
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Flying a De Havilland 4 in World War I
Alcock and Brown: First to fly the Atlantic non-stop
The showgirl and the Schneider trophy
The captured RAF Chaplain-in-Chief’s cross
A view from the RAF front line during the Cold War
Aviation landmarks of Norfolk and Suffolk
The end of an era for Laker Airways
The Spitfire: R.J. Mitchell’s radical design development
The nose art of the Lancaster bomber
Concorde chronology
The R34 airship
Concorde: An icon in the news
The RAF and Imperial War Museums
The first flight of the Gloster Meteor
Amelia Earhart and Neta Snook: Pioneering aviators
Flying for the RAF: Bizarre incidents
Zeppelin Hindenburg, transatlantic workhorse
Concorde: Flying hotel to pocket rocket
The maiden flight of Zeppelin Hindenburg
The enduring appeal of hot air balloons
Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown & the gateway to supersonic flight
Gatwick Airport: The first fifty years
Biography and memoir
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Memoir: a personal experience
Fighting fascists: Battling Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts
Doris Delevingne: The Mistress of Mayfair
Mrs Guinness: The rise and fall of Diana Mitford
From Roald Dahl to George Bernard Shaw: Sheds of famous authors
Nelson Mandela: Release and reconciliation
The beginnings of Bond
Tsar-crossed lovers? The truth about Nicholas II and ‘Matilda’
10 things you should know about Robert Burns
Travelling the world in a double-decker bus
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Churchill’s feline dynasties
Alison Plowden: Historian and biographer
The Brontës: Love, jealousy & sibling rivalry
Re-examining the life of Anne Frank
Building Titanic
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RMS Olympic postcard collection
The future of the HMHS Britannic
The disappearance of Agnes Tufverson
Dark history
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Devon’s villainous vicars and religious rogues
The elusive Henry Every
10 facts about Blackbeard
Road frights of the paranormal kind
Creating ghost stories
Jersey’s 10 spookiest locations
Phantom rider: Haunted by a hitchhiker
Suffolk ghost tales
A Swansea murder with a twist in the tale
Yorkshire’s spookiest spots
The Pendle witches
A short history of witch fever
The History Press ‘Haunted’ authors on all things paranormal...
UFOs and the Cold War
Who put Bella in the wych elm?
Discovering Ireland
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Dublin 4: From the Grand Canal to the Dodder
Waterford Harbour: Tides and tales
A brief history of Waterford city
10 facts about the first Irish railway
10 facts about County Galway
Banbridge: The star of County Down
The Celtic Literary Revival in Co. Galway
10 facts about Merrion and Booterstown
Did Van Morrison’s ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ come from Derrygonnelly in County Fermanagh?
10 historical facts about Tipperary
Entertaining women
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Diana Dors: Mink and millions?
Why do people still love Marilyn Monroe?
How Carole Lombard’s career was almost over before it began
Dorothy Squires’ love: Roger Moore
Audrey Hepburn: Life beyond Tiffany’s
Entertainment history
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Ask the author: Yens Wahlgren on constructed languages
Christmas television past
Solo’s run: The legacy of Han Solo
Americans in Rome after World War II
Early Beatles gigs expressed in posters
Inventors and artists: The Lumière Brothers
All you need is love
Why is Albert Finney special?
Octopussy: My private revolution
Five guitars that made rock history at Woodstock
Alan Tomkins recalls working on Cleopatra and Dr. No
Playing Gay Q&A
How British theatre raised funds in World War I
Orson Welles on Churchill
At the Oscars with producer Michael Deeley
Have A Butcher’s: Making Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
50 years of Radio 1
30 iconic album covers
Recording Pink Floyd’s ‘Atom Heart Mother’
Edgar Wallace at the movies
Bond hits and myths
Espionage
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The secret language of espionage
Cold War Allied aerial espionage
Master spy Sidney Reilly: The inspiration for James Bond
The secret history of signals intelligence
Espionage from neutral Holland in World War I
Spying in Berlin during the Cold War
Mata Hari: The enduring fantasy
The forgotten codebreakers of the First World War
Ask the author: Tania Szabó answers our questions about the world of espionage
Buster Crabb: Ian Fleming’s favourite spy
How to make money from the Enigma machine
Espionage and the SOE
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Espionage and the SOE
The Twins: The SOE’s brothers of vengeance
Uncovering Josef Jakobs
Operation Mincemeat: The man who never was
The secret World War II peace mission of Tancred Borenius
Britain’s secret homes: Orchard Court
The Last Cambridge Spy: John Cairncross
French SOE hero Robert Maloubier
How Lorenz was different from Enigma
St. Ermin’s Hotel and the origins of SOE’s Section D
Explorers
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A Christmas like no other? Captain Robert Scott’s 1910 expedition to the Southern Ocean
Queen Elizabeth I’s Sea Dogs
Captain Lawrence Oates: Antarctic tragedy
What was Captain Cook looking for when he crossed the Antarctic Circle in 1773?
Everest revealed
The death of Robert Falcon Scott
The man who found Dr Livingstone
John Cabot and the first English expedition to America
Roald Amundsen: The first to reach the South Pole
Henry ‘Birdie’ Bowers – The first Scot to reach the South Pole
Female spies
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Vera Eriksen: The Second World War’s most enigmatic spy
Mathilde Carré: The Second World War’s ‘exceedingly dangerous woman’
Elaine Madden: Unsung heroine of the SOE
Mrs Zigzag: A double agent’s wife
Seven of the bravest female secret agents
Odette: World War Two’s darling spy?
Was Mata Hari condemned because of her sexuality?
Fiction
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In Dracula’s footsteps
Resurrecting the dead: Or the delicate art of writing biographical fiction
The lessons of Agatha Christie
The Beatrix Potter pilgrimage
Ask the author: Cora Harrison on writing historical crime fiction
20 things you (probably) didn’t know about Charlotte Brontë
Famous bears in literature
10 things you didn’t know about Emily Brontë
Genealogy
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Tracing bigamy, dishonesty and intrigue in Victorian marriage records
A brief history of signet rings
Three ways to find your ancestors’ World War I medals
Tracing Emily Wilding Davison’s family history
How to get started on researching your family tree
The roots of genealogy
Welfare and the workhouse
Counting the United Kingdom: The census from 1086 to now
The value of referencing in genealogy
A portrait of a mother: the story of Edward and Rebecca Dowler
Researching the suffragette movement
Georgian
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Ask the author: Julia Abel Smith on Lady Augusta Murray
The land of the ‘free’: Criminal transportation to America
Freemasonry: The first Masonic Grand Lodge
The March of the Blanketeers 1817
The discovery of Cheltenham’s spa waters
There’s something about Jane (Austen)...
The forbidden marriage of Lady Augusta Murray
Waterloo to Peterloo: The tragic story of John Lees
The assassination of Spencer Perceval, British Prime Minister
The myth of highwayman Dick Turpin outlives the facts
The secret life of the country house
300 years of Capability Brown
Great War Britain
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Great War Britain
Chapel Street: The bravest little street of World War I
A Gloucestershire Lad in World War I
Woodchester Wayside Cross: Britain’s first war memorial
Liverpool during the First World War
How the Pershore Plum helped win the First World War
Growing up during the First World War in Worcestershire
The First World War and Eastern England
The Middlesbrough Ambulance
Bloody Easter 1916: The Liverpool Irish in Dublin and France
Hull in The Great War
Zeppelins on the East Coast
In their footsteps: The impact of World War I in West Yorkshire
The Derbyshire Yeomanry in the First World War
How the well-organised women of Cheltenham contributed to the war effort
Irish folk tales
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Irish folk tales
Magical Irish animals
Kerry: A kingdom worthy of the name
Dublin Folk Tales For Children – Quest for the Smelly River
Irish history
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The Battle of Clonmult: The IRA’s worst defeat
Bloody Easter 1916: The Liverpool Irish in Dublin and France
An introduction to Brehon law
The 1916 Easter Rising
The Orange walks of Northern Ireland
The Falls Curfew: Reassessing the past
Five daring women from Irish history
The secret court martial records of the Easter Rising
History matters in Ireland
Lieutenant-General John Nicholson: Hero or villain?
The solution to the ‘Two St Patricks’ theory
Harry Clarke: Modernising a medieval art
Anne Boleyn and the Irish connection
Camp debate: Bloody Sunday 1972
The Irish Diaspora and St. Patrick’s Day
Kings and queens
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Ten things you may not know about Princess Mary
Why was Edward VIII’s abdication a necessity?
The House of York: Edmund of Langley and his children
A haverin’ history of Mary, Queen of Scots
Infamous royal marriages
Charles II and Catherine of Braganza: A loveless marriage?
Great Scot, it’s Robert the Bruce!
A beginner’s guide to the Babington Plot
Being a Scottish monarch is not good for your health
King Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson
The top ten longest-reigning British monarchs
Richard I: A mighty king or a menacing tyrant?
The betrayal of Richard III
Love rats: Three of England’s lustful kings
Mary, Queen of Scots in seven actresses
The House of Lancaster in seven people
Royal engagement rings through the centuries
Duke of Clarence: A title through time
The Eleanor Crosses: Longshanks’ love set in stone
Richard III, the missing princes, and bones discovered in the Tower
King Arthur in history and legend
The moment Princess Elizabeth became queen
Mary, Queen of Scots’ great escape
Henry V: Cold-hearted ruler or virtuous king?
Five little-known facts about Queen Mary I
William the Conqueror: Crowned at Christmas
Local history
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Bristol’s 10 historical places
Of priests and parishioners: Holy Trinity, Sutton Coldfield
The rich history of Somerset
Just how different was Norfolk?
Cotswold Arts and Crafts architecture
Leith: The creative heart of Edinburgh
Norfolk in the spotlight: Theatres, fairgrounds, and family fun
Tracing history through the names of pubs and inns
The Prison of Norman Cross: The Lost Town of Huntingdonshire
Women of the Durham Coalfields
Bristol’s other slave trades
Yorkshire versus Henry VIII
10 little known facts about Cumbria
Why short stories matter
Recollections of the Sapperton Canal Tunnel
Royals in Essex
10 Cambridgeshire crimes
A history of Oxfordshire
By royal appointment: Herefordshire’s regal connections
Sussex poetry: A country saved...a country lost
The Manchester Blitz
Guernsey’s evacuees
Bennachie’s casualties of war
Vintage visions above the high street
Wokingham: The essential English market town
Stay Local, Shop Local
Shameless Herefordshire
Strange customs in the Garden of England
The English village fête
20 things you never knew about Coventry
A brief history of Cornwall’s rivers
Aberdeen’s granite men: Hard men, hard work
An expert guide to local history from THP’s authors
A short history of the Fens
Merseyside in the 1960s
Top five Bristol mysteries
How militant were women’s suffrage campaigners in Gloucestershire?
Llywelyn the Last
When Henry VIII met the Holy Maid of Kent
The devastating storm of 1953
The origins of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth
The Black Country alphabet
10 cultural milestones from Cardiff’s past
10 things I love about Lincolnshire
Essex Land Girls
What makes Wales great
Talking Tyke: 10 Yorkshire dialect words
London history
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Ten famous East Enders
London: Vanishing ads and fading innocence
Walthamstow: Beating the bounds
The recasting of Big Ben
Mary Wollstonecraft‚ the Quakers‚ and The Angry Brigade: the dissenting history of a London parish
The last Thames frost fair
A curious history of London
Vintage London: 1910 to 1960
Growing up in London’s East End
London in the Second World War
Tube Life: Archival images from London's Underground
Fitzrovia: The other side of Oxford Street
Ask the author: Phil Stride on London’s Thames Tideway Tunnel
A brief history of Notting Hill
Quiz: London’s royal history
The London Beer Flood
1666: The Great Fire of London
London in literature
London police opening fire: 1983 to now
The unique joys of Speakers’ Corner
Maritime
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Maritime
Penguins and polar bears: The wildlife at Earth’s poles
The craziest things overheard on a cruise ship
Seven things you (probably) didn’t know about Portsmouth Dockyard
Wonders of the UK’s waterways
Salsette: 100 years under the sea
Top tips for narrowboat life
RMS Mauretania: Cunard’s most luxurious ocean liner
The sinking of the RMS Lusitania
Day-trip to disaster: the Zeebrugge disaster
Sea devils: Pioneer submariners
Terrible true tales of life at sea
10 facts about Blackbeard
Diving the wreck of Carpathia
The sinking and raising of the Mary Rose
The progression of transatlantic liners through history
The brief but glorious career of SS Normandie
The Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916
The romance of the high seas
Q&A with Simon Mills, owner of the HMHS Britannic wreck
Medieval
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Medieval
St Davids Cathedral’s famous faces
Ask the author: Gemma Hollman on Royal Witches
Three things you might not know about Owain Glyndŵr
Robert the Bruce: Earl, outlaw, king
Joan, Lady of Wales
The death of Henry III
Fact vs fiction: The Battle of Lincoln explored
Battle of Hastings history timeline
Where did the Black Prince get his name from?
The Woodvilles: Were they as bad as history states?
The Bayeux Tapestry in numbers
Winchelsea at war
Alfred the Great: King of the Anglo-Saxons
Medieval tales from many lands
The Battle of Tettenhall: Aethelflaed’s greatest victory
Braveheart: The immortality of William Wallace
England’s first great naval victory
The Clifford’s Tower massacre
Eleanor of Aquitaine’s greatest gamble
The Black Death: Human history’s biggest catastrophe?
Family loyalty and deceit within the clan of Dracula
The Battle of Verneuil: a second Agincourt
Eleanor Talbot: The Secret Queen
Why is Magna Carta still celebrated?
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians timeline
Military
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Animals at war: The PDSA Dickin Medal
The fall of Tenochtitlan
Camp debate: Bloody Sunday 1972
The Battle of Goose Green
Gibraltar: Conquered by no enemy
The Battle of Culloden 1746
Britain’s last invasion: Fishguard 1797
Hastings 1066: The Battle
The man who saved the ninja
Embed: With the world’s armies in Afghanistan
Interpreting the Battle of Bosworth Field
The ninja or samurai myth
Helmet history: Impractical German headdress
From socks to scout cars: How to supply the army at war
The poppy as a symbol of remembrance
How Russian was the revolution of 1917?
The Siege of Mafeking: A timeline of events
An A-Z of the Falklands War
King Shaka’s Zulu
Five great battles from history
Operation Unthinkable – Churchill’s plans to invade the Soviet Union
Family loyalty and deceit within the clan of Dracula
Special Force: Legacy of the Chindits
Modern history
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Modern history
Ten things you might not know about the Apollo Missions
Radio Caroline: Teenage music memories
Four key events in Britain’s nuclear weapons history
The golden days of Kennedy’s special relationship with Britain
1966: When Britain was the envy of the world
Mandela: From prison cell to president
The reality of working for the Prime Minister
The Vietnam War: Tet Offensive
The Festival of Britain 1951
The Falklands War: A chronology of events
THP’s Desert Island Discs
Einstein’s Theory of Gravitational Relativity proven after 100 years
Reminiscences of the Queen’s Coronation
Escaping from Hungary’s Iron Curtain
Motoring
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Seventy years of the British Grand Prix
Cars we loved in the 1950s
From discomfort to joy: Dunlop’s pneumatic bicycle tyre
The Honourable Mrs Victor Bruce’s quest for more horsepower
Top speed – true or false? Testing carmakers’ claims
Road testing the Mercedes 300B and the 250
It’s an Akroyd not a Diesel!
Beatrice ‘Tilly’ Shilling: Celebrated aeronautical and motorcycle engineer
Eight things you might not know about the black cab
The British Army’s vehicles: From tanks to transporters
Cars we loved in the 1960s
The Reliant Robin and nine other great British three-wheelers
Napoleonic
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Vice Admiral Lord Nelson’s state funeral
HMS Victory, saved for the nation
The Sweny brothers & how they both met Napoleon
Waterloo: The Great War
Napoleon is dead! The Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814
The tradition of Pickle Night
The historical background to the Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon and the creation of an empire 1799 -1804
Nazis & the Holocaust
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Nazis & the Holocaust
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943
Fact into fiction: The art of Nazi propaganda
A timeline of Anne Frank’s life
Theresienstadt: Paradise Camp
The Reichstag on fire
Unity Mitford meets Hitler
A love that survived the Holocaust
On board Titanic
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On board Titanic
Titanic’s maiden departure from Southampton
Down amongst Titanic’s ‘Black Gang’
The story of Wallace Hartley, Titanic bandmaster
Titanic’s captain
People of WWII
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People of WWII
VE Day: Celebrating Victory in Europe
What became of ‘The Few’ after the Battle of Britain?
The Rudolf Hess flight: 10 conspiracies
The ‘Dead End Kids’ of the London Blitz
Who were the real Enigma heroes?
Artists of the Second World War
Ask the author: Peter Hore on forgotten WWII hero Mary Lindell
Railway
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The final journey of the Unknown Warrior
The birth of British Railways
A short history of the British Transport Police
The history of London’s Underground railway
The railway language
Mallard and the Railway World Speed Record
Britain’s final steam trains
Speed on steel wheels: High speed rail
The return of the Flying Scotsman
Social and cultural history
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Social and cultural history
The cobbled street: Memories of a child
Indonesia and the coconut
From martyrdom to capitalism: A timeline of Valentine’s Day
The history of Scotland in seven people
A short history of the Post Office
A history of British pub names
How an escaped slave became the most photographed American of the 19th century
The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833
The history of street photography
Six strange objects from the history of medicine
Ask the author: Emma White on dogs throughout British history
Changes to medical practice from 1914 - 1918
Immigration to the USA by White Star liner
Magna Carta: Justice for all?
The swinging sixties
A pig called Alice
10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of the static caravan
Five Abolitionists you should know
The media vs the mighty in seven quotes
Peace symbols through history
10 things you didn’t know about Britain’s black community during the World Wars
10 street photography tips
Slavery in history
The price of a bouquet: Vincent Van Gogh and the art market
The Duke of Somerset, Scotland and Brexit
10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Burma
Celebrating 80 years of the Speaking Clock
Elizabeth Fry: Saint of prison reform
Graffiti of the East End
Bringing up baby in the 1950s
Sport
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The Christian origins of Dings Crusaders
London’s first Olympics, 1908
The greatest football coach England never had
The King’s Cup 1919
Dr. Guttman and the Paralympic movement
Quiz: The title triumphs of Arsenal F.C.
‘War by other means’: Rugby and warfare
Confessions of a Coventry City fan
A miscellaneous history of Wimbledon
Storytelling
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A walk in the wild, wild woods
The making of Finn and the Fianna
Folk tales of rock and stone
Exploring Gloucestershire in search of stories
Animal folk tales of Britain and Ireland
Collecting Scotland’s folk tales
Bringing forests to life through the power of stories
What lies beneath...
Flower fairies – fey or fearsome?
‘We’re still here’: Lost voices from Wales to America
Michael Rosen on the power of storytelling
The art of historical storytelling
The Ballad of Eliza Woodcock
The challenges of adapting a folk tale
The art of visual storytelling
Folk tales: Do they need updating?
The Storyteller: A poem about the art and practise of storytelling
The folklore of the Isle of Man
Growing up with stories
Medieval Monsters
Are statues for the birds?
Ask the author: Kevin Walker on Queer Folk Tales
‘Wherever we go we take our stories with us’: Jewish folk tales of Britain and Ireland
Medieval tales from many lands
Buckinghamshire: Where old and new sit side-by-side
Piskeys, Night-riders and Jack ‘o’ Lanterns: Fairies in Cornish folklore
Finding the folk tales
How the Birds helped the Hedgehog
Connecting story, science and self for a sustainable future this Earth Day
Essex landscapes and ghost tales
Here be dragons
Storytelling: Painting the tales
What I love about performance storytelling
10 things you might not know about storytelling
Why the story you tell is important
Storypower: The gift of storytelling
Capturing native animal folk tales of the British Isles
Suffragettes
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East End suffragettes in the First World War
Lily Maxwell: The first woman to vote
How militant were women’s suffrage campaigners in Gloucestershire?
The 1918 General Election
Mary Sophia Allen: Suffragette to fascist
The Pankhursts: Politics, protest and passion
Non-militant suffragettes and their peaceful march for votes
Women represent: Artefacts that tell the story of suffrage
A tribute to Emily Wilding Davison
The Blitz
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The ‘Dead End Kids’ of the London Blitz
The Manchester Blitz
The evacuation of children during the Second World War
Wartime London: A criminal’s paradise?
Growing up in London’s East End
Shelter at home in the Second World War
The Mystery Press
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The life of an anchoress
Charles Dickens’s milkman and other footnotes to history
Charles Dickens and the Immortals: Part 2
Queen of Crime: Agatha’s influence
Medieval England: Filling in the blanks
Crime fiction writing and forensic medicine
Charles Dickens and the Immortals: Part 1
The Stuarts
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The Stuarts
The English Civil War and the rise of journalism
James I: England’s first Stuart monarch
How historically accurate is Outlander?
The later diaries of Samuel Pepys
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
House histories: Paramour Grange
A conflict beyond peacemakers: James I and the Thirty Years’ War
No reconciliation, no address: King Charles I in exile
Thomas Venner and the Fifth Monarchists
James II: Will the real King of England please stand up?
Happy and Glorious, the Revolution of 1688
Why was Isaac Newton such a giant?
The Tudors
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Six things you (probably) didn’t know about Edward VI
What if the Princes in the Tower survived into Tudor England?
The final days of Henry VIII
Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace
The diabolical death of Henry, Lord Darnley
12 little-known facts about Catherine of Aragon
The execution of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset
Katherine Howard: Vixen or victim?
Margaret Douglas: The other Tudor princess
Teenagers in Tudor times
Memento mori: Reminding the Tudors of their mortality
Margaret Tudor: English princess, Scottish queen
Mary I: Tyrant or trailblazer?
Lady Jane Grey in six places
Attitudes towards women in the Tudor period
Henry VII in seven facts
Do we know the real Henry VIII?
Henry VIII: Avaricious, suspicious, inconstant
The royal bed of Henry VII & Elizabeth of York
Catherine Parr: Henry VIII’s last love
Catherine of Aragon’s arrival in England
Why is Shakespeare’s real life (and his death) so undebatable?
Thomas Cromwell and the ‘ungoodly’ executioner
It Could Be Ye: England’s first lottery
A guide to historic Tudor sites
Evil May Day: When Tudor London rioted against foreigners
Five little-known facts about Queen Mary I
Queen Elizabeth I: A brief history
Thomas Cromwell and the fall of Anne Boleyn
Dogs in Shakespeare
The Victorians
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The Victorians
Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace: The computer’s most passionate partnership
Lieutenant-General John Nicholson: Hero or villain?
The Victorian Society: Campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian architecture
Timeline of the 1842 retreat from Kabul
Colonial disasters you (probably) haven’t heard of
The first Victoria Cross hero
When Victoria met Sarah
What prompted Charles Darwin to publish his theory of evolution?
Seven little-known facts about Queen Victoria
Eight little-known facts about Florence Nightingale
Why was Charles Darwin a giant of science?
The Brown Dog affair
Titanic
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Down amongst Titanic’s ‘Black Gang’
Titanic 101
The story of Wallace Hartley, Titanic bandmaster
RMS Olympic postcard collection
Titanic facts
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Titanic facts
Titanic 101
Titanic’s legacy
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Titanic’s legacy
Titanic wreck stories: fact or myth?
Titanic and empire
Dorothy Gibson: The woman who survived the sinking of the Titanic and a Nazi prison
How was the wreck of the Titanic discovered?
Titanic and Terra Nova
Trivia and gift
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Trivia and gift
Ask the author: Arthur Parkinson on spring gardening
Animals on bicycles
Quizzes, trivia and history
Seven things you (probably) didn’t know about America’s presidential elections
13 things you never knew about British democracy
Narrow escapes from history
True crime
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True crime
Inside the Cromwell Street murder investigation
Wartime London: A criminal’s paradise?
The notorious case of Dr Crippen
The ‘Acid Bath’ murders
Medical detectives: pioneering forensic pathologists
Escape from Broadmoor
The Sweeney & the Dirty Squads: Police corruption and sleaze 70’s style
The Manchester Martyrs of 1867
Re-examining the case of ‘Jack the Stripper’
Ask the author: Monica Weller on investigating a 50-year-old cold case
The Kalahari Killings
Fitted up: The Mitcham Co-op murder
Victoria & Abdul
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Victoria & Abdul
End of an era: The death of Queen Victoria
Five things that may change your mind about Queen Victoria
Buffalo Bill’s British Wild West
India from Queen Victoria’s time to independence
Dadabhai Naoroji: The UK’s first Indian MP
Victorian crime
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Victorian crime
Jack the Ripper and the tabloid press
Jacob Isenschmid: Jack the Ripper suspect
The year of the Ripper
The victims of Jack the Ripper
London’s Victorian murderesses
The Monte Carlo Casino: From empty tables to a magnet for millionaires
Unsolved murders of women in Victorian London
Victorian industry
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Victorian industry
Victorian King’s Cross and the Maiden Lane GNR terminus
The Atlantic Telegraph Cable: Communicating across the sea
The forgotten men of the London Underground
The launch of SS Great Britain
Brunel: The second greatest Brit of all time?
33 years in the making: Brunel’s Clifton Suspension Bridge
Victorian society
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Victorian society
Five facts about London’s Victorian slums
Thomas Cook’s first tours to the continent
Poorhouse peculiarities in Bedford
Women and domestic service in Victorian society
Chloroform: 170 years of controversy
The Victorian dinner inside a dinosaur
Hard times in prison in the 1880s
Women and war
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Women and war
Black women of World War One
A nursing sister on the Western Front
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