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10 Bizarre Assassination Attempts From History
Infected with the plague, stabbed in the bum and attacked by a bear, discover history’s 10 weirdest assassination attempts
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Death in the Ice: The Shocking Story of Franklin’s Final Expedition
In 1845, Sir John Franklin set sail for the Arctic with 128 men. They never returned.
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Arthur Conan Doyle & Spiritualism: How Sherlock’s Creator Embraced the Occult
How could a man who believed in seances and fairies possibly have created Sherlock Holmes?
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Mark Ellis: Does Historical Fiction Ruin Our Historical Understanding?
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8 Lost Treasures From History Still Waiting To Be Found
From Nazi gold to sunken treasure ships, discover 8 of the most intriguing lost treasures worthy of Indiana Jones
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Denial’s Deborah Lipstadt on how historians can lead the fight against fake news
Her fight against Holocaust denier David Irving is the subject of the film Denial, but for Professor Deborah Lipstadt the war against falsehood is only just beginning
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Royals & Reprobates: Taboo’s Regency Roistering in Today’s London
Prostitutes, fight clubs and hangmen, on the trail of Taboo’s Regency underbelly in modern London
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8 Things you probably didn’t know about Beethoven by Susan Lund, author of ‘Beethoven: Life of an Artist’.
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Perm 36: The Soviet-era Gulag museum where Putin is rewriting history
The sole surviving Gulag, now a museum, has been remodelled to fit a surge in Soviet nostalgia and nationalist fervour
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Free State of Jones reminds us that slavery didn’t end with the Civil War and its poisonous legacy is real
Dr Thomas Sebrell on how Free State of Jones lays bare the racial fault line that still defines the United States
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Himmler’s Nazi Cycling Scam: How bike reflectors helped fund the Ahnenerbe
How the invention of bicycle reflectors helped fund the Ahnenerbe, Heinrich Himmler’s ancestral research organisation
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Le Père Fouettard: The French Christmas cannibal who serves Santa Claus
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Victorian Egyptomania: How a 19th Century fetish for Pharaohs turned seriously spooky
Mummy unwrapping, gothic horror and the Golden Dawn, the Victorians took Ancient Egypt to some very dark places
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Tony Robinson reveals his 6 favourite historical places
Archaeology champion Tony Robinson reveals his must-see museums, castles and heritage sites
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Matthew McConaughey’s historical epic Free State of Jones charts the horrors of Reconstruction and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan
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Manchester & Leningrad: Solidarity between cities endured Stalin and anti-Semitism
Dr Catherine Danks explains how the Leningrad Blockade and radical politics brought Britain and the USSR together
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Victoria’s Labour of Love: Explore History issue 5 is out now!
Discover the house that defined Victoria and Albert’s happiest years, Easter Island’s mysterious stone heads and more inside issue 5 of Explore History
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Edward Low: The Pirate that Blackbeard could only dream of being
Meet Edward Low, the most fearsome pirate you’ve probably never heard of
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The Martyrdom of Horst Wessel: How a far right street fighter became a Nazi icon
Horst Wessel idolised Joseph Goebbels, but when he died Goebbels saw the real value of the Nazi thug
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Charlotte Bronte at 200: How the Jane Eyre novelist defied gender boundaries
On the 200th anniversary of her birth, we take a look at Charlotte Bronte’s remarkable life
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The hero of Titanic who survived two sinking ships and two World Wars
Meet Charles Lightoller, the naval hero of RMS Titanic and the evacuation of Dunkirk
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How a Soviet soft power offensive tried to turn Africa against the United States
Red Africa season at Calvert 22 explores the USSR’s courtship of Ethiopia, Angola and the ‘Third World’
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The Discovery of Australia: How the Dutch won the race to the Great South Land
Before James Cook made landfall, Dutch merchants, Portuguese explorers and an English pirate raced to Australia