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A woman in a meadow wearing a flower crown

6 pagan celebrations to welcome spring
Ada Lovelace portrait

Brainy British female scientists who changed the world
Red Nose Day bunting

When is Red Nose Day 2023?
Zodiac signs prophecy book

Predictions for 2023: What is going to happen this year?
Salem Witch Trials: A women protests as one of her accusers, a young girl, appears to have convulsions.

The weird history of the Salem witch trials
Ancient Anglo-Saxon helmet

The most important Anglo-Saxon gods and goddesses

Shoal of fish swim through a shipwreck

The most expensive shipwrecks in history
Portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi

The most powerful women in history 
Flowers sprouting through the snow

When is the first day of Spring 2024? 
Joesphine Baker

Josephine Baker: The iconic jazz performer turned WWII hero
F-14 fighter flying over burning Kuwaiti oil wells

6 little known facts about the Gulf War
The Death of Julius Caesar (1806) by Vincenzo Camuccini

Major historical anniversaries in March
Caveman Rob and Adam Thorn hold their arms after being stung

10 free episodes you can watch on History PLAY in March 2023
Odette Sansom in front of a George Cross Medal

3 women who won the George Cross 
A fortune telling crystal

Did Nostradamus really predict the rise of Adolf Hitler?
A statue of Vlad the impaler

Vlad the Impaler: 7 gruesome acts by the man who inspired Dracula
Jerry Abershawe depicted in a cigarette card from the 1920s

Stand and deliver! Britain's most famous highwaymen and women
Colourised photo of two Wrens reassembling a pom-pom gun in WWII

Wrens: The history of the Women's Royal Naval Service
A woman with a ash crucifix on her forehead

'Remember that you are dust': The history of Ash Wednesday
Admiral Karl Dönitz in U-Boat Wargamers

Admiral Karl Dönitz: Head of the Nazi's U-Boats and Hitler's successor
Sam Naz with director Christopher Hanvey on set

Behind the scenes of new short film Liberté with its writer and star, Sam Naz
Molly Vevers as Jean Laidlaw

'We should celebrate what they achieved': U-Boat Wargamers interview
The history of Pancake Day

The pagan roots of Pancake Day and Shrove Tuesday
A still from U-Boat Wargamers

U-Boat Wargamers: Episode Guide
Noor Inayat Khan

The life of Noor Inayat Khan: An unsung hero of WWII
Naval officers inspecting a map

U-Boat Wargamers: A historic timeline of events
Nicola Sturgeon

A brief history of the Scottish Independence movement
Theda Bara as Cleopatra

Walk like an Egyptian: The Ancient Egypt craze of the 1920s
Aerial shot of the Thornborough Henges site

The history of the 'Stonehenge of the North'
Lupercalia

The pagan roots of Valentine's Day
The Humiliation of Emperor Valerian

8 strangest deaths of history's ancient rulers
A Victorian Valentine's card

5 romantic Victorian Valentine's Day traditions
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in 'Cleopatra'

5 great romances of the 20th century 
A sign next to a rose saying 'Happy Valentine's Day'

The strange history of Valentine’s Day cards 
The death of Captain Cook

3 bloody and brutal events that happened on Valentine's Day
Frederick Douglass

3 iconic Black civil rights activists born on Valentine's Day