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10 Fast Facts About the Plantagenets

Britains Bloodiest Dynasty
What if JFK was never shot?
Italy Detachment 2nd SAS Regiment - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Italy_Detachment_2nd_SAS_Regiment.jpg
How did the SAS carry out its first postwar covert operations?

Military History
Code Breaking

WW2
Saddam Hussein
Wilhelm Zahn
The U-Boat commander who almost killed Churchill
Did the Mob kill JFK? New evidence suggests they did.

Mysteries
Justin Salinger plays Ulysses S. Grant in Grant
Interview with Justin Salinger, star of 'Grant'

Grant
Tsar Nicolas II (left) and George V (right) were first cousins
The Kaiser, the Tsar and King George V - cousins at war in WW1

Ancestry
The Polish cryptographers who cracked the Enigma code
The secret mission to select the Unknown Warrior

Mysteries
Mametz, Western Front, a winter scene, painting by Frank Crozier | Public Domain
Lesser known facts about The Battle of the Somme

WW1
Saddam Speaks in Court | Public Domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein#/media/File:Saddam_Hussein_at_trial,_July_2004.JPEG | P
Operation Red Dawn: The mission that snared Saddam Hussein

Modern History
How to Use Ancestry to Research Your International Family

Ancestry
The history of Japanese knife making

Food and Drink
The coffin of the Unknown Warrior in state in the Abbey in 1920 | Wikipedia
‘Unknown by name or rank’: The grave of the Unknown Warrior

WW1
Listen to Not What You Thought You Knew S2

Not What You Thought You Knew
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
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
Old Town Market Place
The destruction of Warsaw: the Nazi plan to obliterate a city

Battles
How to journey back in time with Ancestry’s records

Ancestry
Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum by John Martin
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and the destruction of Pompeii

Ancient History
26th November 1942: Armed with light machine guns, Soviet troops attack the German forces in the vicinity of the Red October plant in Stalingrad.
How Russia Won the Battle of Stalingrad

WW2
AD Wintle and the aftermath of the battle of Festubert where he single-handedly captured a French village
The last Englishman - the unbelievable wartime exploits of AD Wintle

WW1
The Massacre of Peterloo or Britons Strike Home by George Cruikshank
Peterloo: the bloody massacre that led to parliamentary reform

Battles
The unlikely escapades of Oliver Cromwell's head

British History
Damage from a Zeppelin raid, Great Yarmouth, January 1915 (left), an L3 Zeppelin
Terror from the air: The German Zeppelin raids of 1915 - 1918

WW1
Mushroom cloud billowing above Hiroshima and the Genbaku Dome, the only intact building remaining after the bombing
What if Hiroshima and Nagasaki never happened?

WW2
King Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger
The history of the English Reformation

British History
What if the von Stauffenberg plot had succeeded

Conspiracies
The Embarkation of Henry VIII at Dover, 1540 the vessels depicted in the painting are decorated with wooden panels similar to those of the Mary Rose
The Mary Rose: Tudor battleship

Not What You Thought You Knew
Vintage family photos | Royalty Free | Unsplash
Meaningful discovery: developing your family tree

Ancestry
Left: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by Philip James de Loutherbourg. Right: King Philip II of Spain | Public Domain | Wikipedia
The Westray Dons' and the Spanish Armada

Ancestry
Lettice Curtis, Jenny Broad, Wendy Sale Barker, Gabrielle Patterson and Pauline Gower of the Air Transport Auxilary in 1942 | Public Domain | Wikimedia
The women of the Battle of Britain

Ancestry