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Did Viking shield maidens really exist?

Not What You Thought You Knew
Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring by Laura Knight | Wikimedia | Public Domain
Civilian professions during WW2

Ancestry
History play
River Hunters in Durham
Rick and Beau incredible discovery from Durham’s riverside

River Hunters
Enola Gay pilot's Grandson
Enola Gay pilot Paul Tibbets’ grandson discusses Hiroshima

Ancestry
The unsung heroes of WW2: Gurkhas

Ancestry
River Hunters at River Avon
Historic finds from the bottom of the River Avon

River Hunters
How Stonewall Changed the World

Modern History
Why Does Everyone Hate the English : Episodes

Al Murray Why Does Everyone Hate the English
6 Historical Mountain Men

Mountain Men
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
The Romanovs

Russia
The German kings and queens of England

Al Murray Why Does Everyone Hate the English
How the Battle of Britain was won

WW2
Hannibal: The Carthaginian general who almost toppled Rome

Ancient History
Was Churchill’s Dardanelles offensive doomed to fail?

WW1
What were the true motives of the Spartans at Thermopylae?

Ancient History
Unidentified S2: Episodes
Severus: Rome’s first African Emperor

Ancient History
Who were the original 102 passengers on board the Mayflower?

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

Ancestry
Ancient Egypt: death and the afterlife
Ancient Egypt: death and the afterlife

Ancient History
Slave Ship by JWM Turner and portrait of Olaudah Equiano by Daniel Orme | Public Domain
Olaudah Equiano and the Zong Massacre

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

Tudor History
Left to right: AC W P Ince of British Guiana, AC E Johnson of Jamaica and AC S E Johnson of Jamaica) during a passing out parade of West Indians at a Royal Air Force station in Yorkshire | Public Domain | Wikipedia
The Caribbean, Indian and African RAF pilots of WW2

Black History
Left. Infantry from the 51st Highland Division wade ashore, Sicily 10 July 1943 | Public Domain. Right Prince Phillip in 1951 by Verbcatcher | Creative Commons | Wikimedia
Prince Philip and the Invasion of Sicily

WW2
Genbaku Dome - Hiroshima
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the aftermath

WW2
An engraving by William Sharp published in 1793, based on Boadicea Haranguing the Britons | Public Domain | Wikimedia
The life of Boudicca: the warrior queen of the the Iceni

Ancient History
Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the Enola Gay | Public Domain | National Archives at College Park
Paul Tibbets: The Man Who Dropped the Bomb

WW2
HMS Brisk and Emanuela. Capture of slave ship, also known as Manuela, an 1854 | Public Domain | Wikipedia
The blockade of Africa: how Royal Navy ships suppressed the slave trade

Black History
The House of Bonaparte: How Napoleon used his family to build an empire
The House of Bonaparte: How Napoleon used his family to build an empire

Ancestry
A school's own air raid shelter
A school's own air raid shelter

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

British History
Eder Dam on 17 May 1943
Just how much of a strategic success was the Dambuster raid?

Battles
History’s greatest love affair: Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin

Kings and Queens