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A Saga of Ice and Fire: The Viking history of Iceland from settlement to strife
Iceland is more than a film set for Game of Thrones, its bloody Viking history is worthy of epic fantasy
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
Battle of Britain ace Paul Farnes: “I didn’t think we were going to lose, it never occurred to us”
One of only two surviving Battle of Britain aces, Wing Commander Paul Farnes DFM remembers his Hurricane summer of 1940
Viceroy’s House gives India’s bloody partition the Downton Abbey treatment
Hugh Bonneville takes on Louis Mountbatten in Viceroy’s House, a historic romance set against the 1947 Partition of India
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
George VI’s fight against fascism: History of Royals issue 12 on sale now
George VI and World War 2, Queen Victoria and haemophilia, the Byzantine Emperor’s Varangian guard and more, only in the new issue of History of Royals
Marie Antoinette’s Extreme Makeover: From Austrian teen to French fashion queen
Agonising dentistry and whalebone corsets, how Marie Antoinette went from provincial outsider to style goddess
Battle of Messines 1917: The forgotten WWI victory that changed the British Army
Professor Mark Connelly of the University of Kent on how mines changed Britain’s fortunes on the Western Front
Win American Civil War epic FREE STATE OF JONES on DVD
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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
The Lost Kingdom of Rheged: What the Trusty’s Hill dig can tell us about Celtic Britain
Archaeologist Ronan Toolis on the Trusty’s Hill Fort excavation that shines some light on Dark Age Britain
Win World of Tanks Tiger 131 and Fury codes worth 50 €
Recreate Fury’s titanic Sherman vs Tiger grudgematch with our World of Tanks competition
Challenging Erich von Däniken on the bizarre longevity of Chariots of the Gods
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Prince Maurice and Prince Leopold of Battenberg: Heroism and Haemophilia in World War I
The Battenberg princes both answered the call of King and Country in 1914, but were they both haemophiliacs?
Win World War 2 thriller USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE on Blu-ray
Win Nicholas Cage-starring war movie USS INDIANAPOLIS: MEN OF COURAGE on Blu-ray and a model kit of the vessel itself
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
Christmas under Cromwell: How religious rebels kept the festive fires burning
Banned as Catholic and perhaps even pagan, Christmas continued to thrive in Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth
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
12 weird and wonderful Tudor Christmas traditions, from boy bishops to Plough Monday
Carol singing, wassail bowls, mince pies and turkey, the 16th Century got so much about Christmas right
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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Win a Sopwith Camel, Focke Wulf FW190 and Dreadnought Battleship Manual in our Haynes Christmas competition
The Birthplace of Henry VII: Inside the Tudor Stronghold of Pembroke Castle
Can new archaeological discoveries at Pembroke Castle finally reveal the birthplace of Henry Tudor and shed light on the Wars of the Roses’ Lancastrian powerbase
Java Sea Shipwrecks of World War 2: One of the men who found them reflects on their loss
Could – and should – HMS Exeter, HMS Encounter, HMS Electra, USS Perch, HNLMS De Ruyter, HNLMS Java and HNLMS Kortenaer have been saved from looters?