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The history of Japanese knife making

Food and Drink
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1968 Olympics Black Power salute

Black History
Black History Month on Sky History
HISTORY Play
Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring by Laura Knight | Wikimedia | Public Domain
Civilian professions during WW2

Ancestry
Miss Lala, born Anna Olga Albertina Brown was a famous 19th-century acrobat | Public Domain | Wikipedia
How ‘Not What You Thought You Knew's’ Dr Fern Riddell uses Ancestry

Ancestry
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
Sir Keith Park: Battle of Britain's 'Defender of London'

WW2
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
Unidentified's Luis Elizondo
Luis Elizondo Unidentifed season two interview

Unidentified
Douglas Bader
Harold Rex Interfectus Est | Bayeaux Tapestry | Public Domain
­­­­­­How the Battle of Hastings was won

Battles
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WW2
The Lagina brothers: net worth & biggest finds

The Curse of Oak Island
Picture of SS-Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller | Public Domain | Wikipedia
Heinrich Müller: The highest-ranking Nazi who got away

WW2
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
British women who changed the world

Popular Culture
Hunting Eichmann - Capturing the Notorious Nazi Fugitive

The Holocaust
Rick and Marty Lagina
The top 25 treasures discovered on Oak Island… So far

The Curse of Oak Island
Convent of Christ Castle in Tomar, Portugal, a former Templar stronghold
Holy Money: How the Knights Templars got so Rich

Knightfall
Black History Month | The battle against racism continues

Black History
Soldiers of the 369th (15th N.Y.), awarded the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action, 1919. Left to right. Front row: Pvt. Ed Williams, Herbert Taylor, Pvt. Leon Fraitor, Pvt. Ralph Hawkins. Back Row: Sgt. H. D. Prinas, Sgt. Dan Storms, Pvt. Joe William
'The Harlem Hellfighters': WW1's African-American regiment

Black History
Left: Only known photograph of Mary Seacole , 1873. Right: Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant) by Albert Charles Challen | Public Domain | Wikimedia
The wonderful adventures of Mrs Seacole in many lands

Black History
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi photographed as a young man in South Africa in 1909
Before he became Mahatma: Gandhi in South Africa
The rise and fall of Blackbeard

Black Sails
Lower Matlock Wheel - Malcolm Nunn
The Great Sheffield Flood

Disasters
Olivia Coleman, left, plays Queen Anne in The Favorite, right a portrait of the Monarch by John Closterman
Queen Anne, Britain’s forgotten Queen

Kings and Queens
Left: British infantry at El Alamein, right: German soldiers at Stalingrad | Wikipedia
The most decisive battles of WW2

Hitler
Wernher von Braun and the V2 rocket
The death of the doodlebug: The rise and fall of Hitler’s V-weapons

WW1
Old Town Market Place
The destruction of Warsaw: the Nazi plan to obliterate a city

Battles
Severus: Rome’s first African Emperor

Ancient History
Ignatius Sancho, 1768 by Thomas Gainsborough
Black Britons who shaped history

British History
The lives of Hitler and Stalin: Two sides of the same coin

Hitler
John Demjanjuk, accused of being the infamous guard, Ivan the Terrible
Ivan the Terrible': the infamous Treblinka guard

The Holocaust