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The Art of TASS, the Soviet Union’s Stencil-Powered Propaganda Powerhouse
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The Birth of the Victorian Police: Drunks, Riots and a Steady Income
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10 Seemingly Insignificant Historical Events that Transformed Britain
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The Red Ribbon author and dress historian Lucy Adlington reveals 8 fashion secrets from the dark days of the Second World War
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The Elusive Offspring: Who Were the Four Children of Calamity Jane?
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The View From Viceroy’s House: How Britain Lost Control of India’s Violent Partition
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10 Bizarre Assassination Attempts From History
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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
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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
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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
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