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

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Oleg Gordievsky
The man who saved the world | Damian Lewis: Spy Wars

Damian Lewis Spy Wars
Philippa Gregory
'Bad women are great characters to write': Philippa Gregory on her new novel
Damian Lewis: Spy Wars
Damian Lewis: Spy Wars available now on HISTORY Play

Damian Lewis Spy Wars
The D-Day Puzzles
The unsolved mystery of the D-day puzzles

Mysteries
The Kensington Runestone
The Kensington Runestone: Fascinating find or fake news?

Secrets of the Viking Stone
Grimsby-born Gary Drayton was a successful treasure hunter in his own right before joining Curse of Oak Island
What a 'Bobby Dazzler': Gary Drayton interview

The Curse of Oak Island
8 Famous Botched Executions

Medieval History
'Sex: Lessons From History' - Dr Fern Riddell
'We’re all sex-obsessed': Fern Riddell on her new book

Not What You Thought You Knew
Loki, the Norse god of mischief
Loki’s most mischievous tricks in Norse mythology

Vikings
Elizabeth I and the Tudor succession crises: 1558 - 1603

Tudor History
Why Magna Carta matters?

Medieval History
Dr Fern Riddell - Sex: Lessons From History
Win a copy of 'Sex: Lessons from History' by Dr Fern Riddell
King Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger
The history of the English Reformation

British History
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Eworth
The killer king: How many people did Henry VIII execute?

Tudor History
Execution in the Middle Ages

Britains Bloodiest Dynasty
The strange and unlikely history of St George

Lost Relics of the Knights Templar
The Battle of Culloden
A brief history of the Jacobite Risings

British History
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
The Tulsa Massacre: The single worst moment of racial violence in US history

Black History
Able Archer 83: the NATO war game that almost led to nuclear conflict

Damian Lewis Spy Wars
'The spies next door'
Russian spies pose as all-American family

Damian Lewis Spy Wars
The world's most infamous Spy Agency: the hidden history of the KGB

Damian Lewis Spy Wars
Sly Wars
For by wise guidance you can wage your war': Mossad's mysterious history

Damian Lewis Spy Wars
The Spies next door

Damian Lewis Spy Wars
Viktor Bout – Merchant of Death

Damian Lewis Spy Wars
The lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King: The firebrand and the pacifist

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

Medieval History
Heart-shaped stone could lead to $200 MILLION gold mine!
HISTORY Play
A still from Damian Lewis: Spy Wars, episode 2, Bombs in the Sky
The history of Al Qaeda, the world's most notorious terrorist group

Damian Lewis Spy Wars
Nostradamus
Prophet Warnings: 9 intriguing predictions from history
Win a copy of Victoire by Roland Phillips
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
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
The Battle of Waterloo
Was the British Empire a force for good?

Colonialism
FDR
The most famous people involved in the Oak Island mystery

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