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Julian Eltinger

A brief but glamorous history of drag

Philippa Gregory

'Bad women are great characters to write': Philippa Gregory on her new novel

Four fascinating facts about Curse of Oak Island's Gary Drayton

The Curse of Oak Island

Dr Fern Riddell - Sex: Lessons From History

Win a copy of 'Sex: Lessons from History' by Dr Fern Riddell

Loki, the Norse god of mischief

Loki’s most mischievous tricks in Norse mythology

Loki, the trickster god, famous for his mischievous antics and devious deceptions, aided and hindered the other ruling deities in equal measure

Vikings

Thor's Fight with the Giants

Seven of the most important gods and goddesses in Norse mythology

Thanks to surviving ancient texts, sagas and archaeological discoveries we know a great deal about the Norse deities

Vikings

Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, by Georg von Rosen | Public Domain | Wikipedia

How the Vikings gave us Christmas

Was Odin the original Santa Claus and other Christmas customs that came from the Vikings?

Vikings

The Battle of Waterloo

Was the British Empire a force for good?

Colonialism

Oliver Cromwell: Dictator or democrat?

British History

A brief history of the 'Wars of the Three Kingdoms'

British History

The Battle of Culloden

A brief history of the Jacobite Risings

British History

The D-Day Puzzles

The unsolved mystery of the D-day puzzles

Mysteries

Monster myths debunked: From Bigfoot to the Loch Ness monster

Mysteries

The magical life of John Dee: Queen Elizabeth I's royal astrologer

The magical life of John Dee

Mysteries

The Secret Journal

Roswell The First Witness

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

Medieval History

Mary Lines - The 1921 Women's Olympiad: 100 years of women's international sport

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

Noor Inayat Khan

The real-life women who inspired WW2 screen heroines

Women's history

Meeting of the Supreme Command, Allied Expeditionary Force, London, 1 February 1944

What does D-Day stand for? And other facts about the Normandy landings

Battles

Left: Australian actor M.E. Clifton James in his General Montgomery disguise, right an inflatable tank

Operation Fortitude: the D-Day deception campaign that fooled the Nazis

Battles

The most decisive battles of WW2

Hitler

The siege of Barnard Castle and the River Tees

River Hunters

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

The Tulsa Massacre: The single worst moment of racial violence in US history

Black History

The lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King: The firebrand and the pacifist

Black History

Roman mosaic of a woman, British Museum | Pixabay | Public Domain

The Ivory Bangle Lady and the multi-culturalism of Roman Britain

Not What You Thought You Knew

Ignatius Sancho, 1768 by Thomas Gainsborough

Black Britons who shaped history

British History

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Ouch! 8 of the most brutal execution methods from the ancient world

Ancient History

The Suttonn Hoo sword

Forged in Fire judge attempts to re-create the intricate Sutton Hoo sword

Forged In Fire

Things you didn’t know about early Christianity: 8 surprising facts

Religion

Jesus and the rich young man by Heinrich Hofmann

The lost years of Jesus: The mystery of Christ's missing 18 years

Religion

King James I and VI - Portrait attributed to John de Critz, c. 1605

Popery, puritans and witches: The reign of King James I and VI

Kings and Queens

Prince Philip and the Invasion of Sicily

WW2

A History of 'common marriages'

Popular Culture

Anne Boleyn in the tower

Who was Henry VIII's most unfortunate wife?

Kings and Queens

Flood tunnel breakthrough

The Curse of Oak Island

5 Lost Treasures Waiting To Be Found

The Curse of Oak Island

Rick Lagina sits on his pick up truck deep in thought, it's that treasure again....

10 Famous Curses from History

The Curse of Oak Island

The mystery of the 'eye' of the swamp

X marks the spot

The Curse of Oak Island