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Leather worker Hamish Lamley

60 Seconds of Skill: Q&A with leather worker Hamish Lamley
Megan Hune

'It'd be very easy to just vanish': Megan Hine on hunting for the lost city of Akakor
Wars of the Roses

A brief history of the Wars of the Roses
French flags in front of the Eiffel Tower

Is July the busiest month for declaring independence?
KIng William

Surprising facts about England's lesser-known kings and queens
The Council of Nicaea

The Council of Nicaea: Resolving the crisis in early Christianity

The legendary adventures of Thor in Norse mythology
Dr Butcher and Mr Humble

The unbelievable story of world’s first successful head transplant

A digitally colourised photograph of Alan Turing

6 influential LGBTQ+ figures from British history 
German general Heinz Guderian (centre), commander of Panzer Group 2, on 20 August 1941

What if Operation Barbarossa had never happened?
Miraculous Heavenly Light - Blue sky, fluffy clouds and a beautiful warm orange yellow sun beaming down radiating depicting a holy entity

The Angel of Mons and other supernatural stories from WWI
Battle of tomatoes. La Tomatina festival where people are fighting with tomatoes at street

Weird and wonderful traditions to welcome the summer

A digitally colourised photograph of Julian Eltinge

A brief but glamorous history of drag
A photograph of a small boat in a dark sea

'Bad women are great characters to write': Philippa Gregory on her new novel
Gary Drayton holding up a find for Rick Lagina to look at

4 fascinating facts about Curse of Oak Island's Gary Drayton
Burning at the stake, one of the most a brutal forms of capital punishment, has a long history as punishment for crimes such as treason, heresy, and witchcraft in Europe.

That takes guts: 7 gory execution methods from Tudor England

Magna Carta Libertatum, is an eight-hundred year-old English legal charter that required King John of England to proclaim certain rights and accept that his will could be bound by the law.

Three ways Magna Carta changed the world
The D-Day Puzzles

The unsolved mystery of the D-day puzzles
The Kensington Runestone

The Kensington Runestone: Fascinating find or fake news?
Meeting of the Supreme Command, Allied Expeditionary Force, London, 1 February 1944

What does D-Day stand for? And other facts about the Normandy landings
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

The Tulsa Massacre: The single worst moment of racial violence in US history
Curse of Skinwalker Ranch

The Curse of Skinwalker Ranch S2: Episodes
Dr Travis Taylor

Dr Travis Taylor
'Sex: Lessons From History' - Dr Fern Riddell

'We’re all sex-obsessed': Fern Riddell on her new book
Crystal ball and fortune teller hands. Divination concept. The spiritual seance. Future reading.

Prophet Warnings: 9 intriguing predictions from history
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
FDR

The most famous people involved in the Oak Island mystery
Secrets of the Runestone

The Kensington Runestone: A Viking mystery
Lagertha

Fiercest female Viking warriors
Peter Stormare

'It was like a calling': Peter Stormare on 'Secrets of the Viking Stone'
The Battle of Waterloo

Was the British Empire a force for good?
A Beltane bonfire

The Wheel of the Year: the calendar of pagan festivals explained
Leiv Eirikson discovering America

Three of the greatest Viking explorers that ever set sail
A photograph of the Mary Rose ship in Portsmouth

Listen to The Mary Rose and the People of Tudor England

Curse of the Lost Amazon Gold: Episodes
Henry VIII and Henry VIII

The lives of Henry VII and Henry VIII: Never the twain shall meet