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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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Was Beethoven really deaf? 7 surprising facts about history’s most eccentric maestro
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
Father Christmas’s French pal ‘Father Whipper’ makes the Krampus look like a beanie baby
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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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Free State of Jones fails as a lesson in Confederate inhumanity and injustice
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
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Murder in Fascist Italy: Did Mussolini have Giacomo Matteotti killed?
How the death of socialist politician Giacomo Matteotti pushed Mussolini past the point of no return
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Calamity Jane: The hardscrabble life that didn’t make the musical
Calamity Jane’s real story is shrouded in rumour, but we do know that her life wasn’t easy
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Conquering Everest: An infographic of Edmund Hillary’s climb to the top
Follow Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s epic journey to the top of Earth’s highest mountain
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Did Suffragette martyr Emily Davison really mean to kill herself?
Discover the arguments for and against the Suffragette suicide at the Epsom Derby
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Babe Ruth and Oscar Wilde in 5 facts
Two more quick yet fact-filled videos on two wildcard mavericks