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
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The Titanic and Teddy Roosevelt in 5 facts
The HistoryAnswers YouTube channel has more history goodness this week
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Ellen Wilkinson: Suffragette, firebrand and hero of the Jarrow Crusade
From the Spanish Civil War to the Jarrow Crusade, Ellen Wilkinson was dedicated to the working man
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Chinese Hopping Vampires: The Qing Dynasty roots behind the Jiangshi legend
Discover the Qing Dynasty folklore behind the Chinese horror movie staple: the Hopping Vampire
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Two new bookazines on sale today!
On the Imagine Shop today: the Book of the Titanic and the Book of Vikings.
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Sweeney Todd might have been French… or he might have been fake
Was Sweeney Todd real? Discover the murky truth behind the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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Anti-Suffrage: the British women who didn’t want the vote
How Mary Humphrey Ward and the Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League fought a losing battle against the Suffragettes
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The gruesome origin of ‘Sweet Fanny Adams’
The phrase ‘Sweet Fanny Adams’ came into popular usage in Victorian England to mean nothing or very little, but was there a real Fanny Adams? The answer is yes, and her story is anything but sweet
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Ada Lovelace: The first computer programmer?
This unusual countess was one of the most influential figures in the history of technology, and one you have most likely never heard of
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William McKinley: The OTHER President Assassinated in the 20th Century
Over half a century before JFK, another popular presidency came to a premature end
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5 bizarre Teddy Roosevelt facts you probably didn’t know
US President Teddy Roosevelt survived an assassination, became a cowboy and took up boxing to overcome asthma
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Did William Webb Ellis really invent rugby?
Over the next six weeks, teams from twenty nations will compete to hoist the William Webb Ellis Cup. Or should that be the Jem Mackie Cup?
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Death, glory and chariot racing
Fans of chariot racing were the world’s first sports hooligans
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Discover the legendary era of English history with the Book Of The Tudors
Explore the intrigues, murder and plots of the era in this brand new bookazine!
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5 most infamous impostors
Whether duping others for money, a crown, prestige or simply for an adrenalin ride, meet the impostors that have made their own mark on history…
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What if the fall of the Berlin Wall hadn’t happened?
Historian Fred Taylor on Germany’s future if the fall of the Berlin Wall didn’t take place
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Sex, Satanism & the 19th Century ‘War of the Magicians’
How the ‘Magic War’ of Boullan, de Guaita, Huysmans and Wirth set Paris aflame
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Wellington: Does Waterloo’s Iron Duke deserve his reputation?
Rory Muir on Wellington’s victories and tactics from the Peninsular War to Waterloo