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What is the most iconic western?

Sitting Bull as depicted in Robert Redford's The West

Who Was Sitting Bull?

We are giving away 10 limited edition Tin Amp portable tin speakers

WW2 Treasure Hunters competition
A photograph of Stalingrad after the first months of the German attack in November 1942, after two months of battle

What if Stalingrad had fallen?
'The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer' a painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme depicts

Valentine's Day: A bloody love story

Which Barbarian Are You?

Image | Fire in Rome by Hubert Robert.

Was Nero Responsible for the Great Fire of Rome?
The Flag of the United States and Viking tools

Vikings, Living in America

An American flag on a landing craft

What if D-Day had failed?
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Was Emily Brontë a feminist?
A mock-up of Jack the Ripper alongside the a HH Holmes mugshot, but were they the same person?

Was HH Holmes Really Jack the Ripper?

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Was the destruction of Dresden an Allied war crime?
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Your Answers to Stephen Taylor’s Unidentified Objects
A Supermarine Spitfire doing a manoeuvre

WW2's greatest air battles
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What The Tattooist of Auschwitz teaches us about the Holocaust
This Autumn HISTORY digs a little deeper into WW2 with World War True, featuring Madness frontman Suggs (pictured).

World War True: A Season of WW2 Shows
A shadow silhouette of a bat in a light beam

Why Did Batman and Superman Go Mainstream?
The Varangian Guards, an illumination from the Skylitzis Chronicle

Who were the Varangian Guard?
Martin Luther King

Why were so many American political figures assassinated in the 1960s?

Win a copy of 'Lancaster' by John Nichol
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Who was HH Holmes?

Why Does Everyone Hate the English : Episodes
Crazy Horse as depicted in Robert Redford's American West

Who Was Crazy Horse?

Win a copy of Renia's Diary, a new classic in Holocaust literature
A close-up of the front of the US 10-dollar bill bearing the portrait of Alexander Hamilton

Who was Alexander Hamilton?
A photograph of an old US bank and saloon

Who features in Robert Redford's The West?

Win a Copy of The Spy by Andrew Gross
The Vikings are coming...

Where the Vikings Left their Mark
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WW2 British Command Centres
A photograph of an eruption of the Anak Krakatau volcanoes in Indonesia

What Would Happen if a Supervolcano Erupted?
A photograph of The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on the 9th August 1945

Why Did Japan Really Surrender in WW2?
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, by William Halsall | Wikipedia

The Mayflower and the birth of America
Auschwitz

The Great Sonderkommando Revolt of 1944

The most decisive battles of WW2
A photograph of Rock of Cashel in Ireland

The Most Picturesque Places in…Ireland
A burning model of The Great Fire of London, 1212

The Great Fire of London, 1212