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The Clayton Barlow knife

60 Seconds of Skill: Sheffield knife-maker Michael May

Craft

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5 lost civilisations you've never heard about

Curse of the Ancients

A medieval executioners holds a large axe

Hang 'Em Higher: 7 more of history's most famous executioners

Medieval History

60 Seconds of Skill: Pipemaker Oliver Meeson

Craft

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The Great Pyramids

Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts: Episode Guide

Professor Alice Roberts reveals how scientists are unearthing evidence of cataclysmic past events and their disastrous consequences.

Curse of the Ancients

Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts

Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts: Trailer

Professor Alice Roberts reveals how scientists are unearthing the evidence for cataclysmic events in the past and their disastrous consequences

Curse of the Ancients

Meet Professor Alice Roberts host of Curse of the Ancients

Everything you need to know about the host of 'Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts''

Curse of the Ancients

The Battle of Culloden

A brief history of the Jacobite Risings

British History

Was Winston Churchill an effective war time leader

How effective was Churchill as a war time leader?

WW2

Viking warrior holding an ax and a shied on a foggy landscape

Seven of the most important gods and goddesses in Norse mythology

Vikings

Leather bound books

Weirdest laws in history

Ancient History

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Morgan Freeman standing in front of some prison bars

Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman: Episode Guide

Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman in a large escape tunnel

'The ingenuity gets to you': Morgan Freeman on his new series 'Great Escapes'

Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman

El Chapo being led away by two special forces officers

The greatest and most audacious prison breaks in history

Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman wearing a white shirt and black jacket

Six facts you didn’t know about Morgan Freeman

Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman

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A man crouches next to a destroyed tent on the side of a snowy mountain

How did nine Russian hikers lose their lives in the Dyatlov Pass incident?

Mysteries

Sarah Cruddas from Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracy

Sarah Cruddas: 'I hope the viewers will be left with a sense of wonder'

Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies

Craig Charles and Sarah Cruddas

Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies - Episodes

Craig Charles: UFO Conspiracies

A contemporary portrait of Kaspar Hauser

The enigma of Kaspar Hauser: Secret prince, hoaxer, or victim?

Mysteries

A photograph showing Althea Gibson playing tennis

Althea Gibson: The woman who shattered the race barrier at Wimbledon

Sport

A portrait of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela: The prison years

Black History

Darwin used taxidermy to preserve Galapagos goldfinches. The differences he observed between species played an important part in developing the theory of evolution.

John Edmonstone – the man who taught Darwin

Not What You Thought You Knew

Bust of the Emperor Caracalla who was of African descent

The history of black Britain: Roman Africans

Ancient History

Meet Professor Alice Roberts host of Curse of the Ancients

Curse of the Ancients

Pottery print of Ancient Greek soldiers fighting

The army of same-sex lovers who made up Sparta's biggest rivals

Ancient History

A Sarcophagus coffin inside an Ancient Egyptian tomb

The curse of King Tutankhamun and the mummy's tomb

Ancient History

Punishment of Ixion

Who were the major Roman gods and goddesses?

Ancient History

Mumbai, Maharashtra/India - April 6, 2019 : A young girl dressed up as Rani Lakshmi Bai with a sword, riding the horse, leading the procession of people,

Lakshmi Bai and the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Battles

The Battle of Isandlwana painted by Charles Edwin Fripp, and photographic image of Zulu king, Cetshwayo, 1875

The Battle of Isandlwana and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879

Battles

Squadron Leader Douglas Bader, CO of No. 242 Squadron, seated on his Hawker Hurricane at Duxford, September 1940 | Public Domain

Douglas Bader: The double-amputee flying ace of the Battle of Britain

Battles

Mametz, Western Front, a winter scene, painting by Frank Crozier | Public Domain

Lesser known facts about The Battle of the Somme

WW1

Florence Nightingale

British women who changed the world

Popular Culture

Joan of Arc: The French heroine who saved her nation but became a martyr

Medieval History

Germaine Delapierre

The 1921 Women's Olympiad: 100 years of women's sport

Women's history

Artemisia I of Caria

Three little known warrior women from history

Women's history

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King Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson on holiday in Yugoslavia, 1936.

Heirs behaving badly: Playboy princes and other royal bad boys

Kings and Queens

Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II visits Liverpool Albert Dock during her Diamond Jubilee tour of Great Britain

The life of Queen Elizabeth II: The world's longest-serving monarch

Kings and Queens

Princess Elizabeth In Auxiliary Territorial Service uniform, April 1945

Four surprising ways that Queen Elizabeth II contributed to WW2

Kings and Queens

Surprising facts about England's lesser-known kings and queens

Kings and Queens