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Henry VIII and Henry VIII

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

When Germans and Americans fought side by side in WW2
The Hindenburg disaster - three air disasters caught on camera

Crash and burn: three air disasters caught on camera
The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries by Jacques-Louis David

Napoleon: The biggest myths debunked
A man wearing headphones in front of the Flag of Russia

Russian spies pose as all-American family

The fatal design flaw in Hitler's D-Day defences
Civil War

What did this secret society have to do with lost Civil War gold?

Guilty or innocent?: The crimes of Anne Boleyn
Stockholm City Hall - Inside the arch there is a marble sculptural composition "Punishment of Loki", 1923

Loki’s most mischievous tricks in Norse mythology
Margaret Thatcher giving a speech in 1991

The 7 longest serving British Prime Ministers
Peasants enjoying a simple meal

The weirdest food in history: From fish bladder jam to beaver tails
Model of Leonardo's tank

9 wacky medieval war machines
Portrait of Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell: Dictator or democrat?
A portrait of Charles I 'In Three Positions'

A brief history of the 'Wars of the Three Kingdoms'

Gary finds a piece of jewellery

The moment Britain almost made peace with Hitler

Win a copy of Victoire by Roland Phillips
Big Ben collapses

How world-famous landmarks would collapse if people disappeared
Pawn Stars - Pawn It Out of the Park (Season 20, Episode 1). 

Watch full episode of Pawn Stars 'Pawn It Out of the Park'
The Duke of Wellington's Funeral

12 'commoners' who had ceremonial state funerals
Cernunnos, 'the Horned One'

The most important Celtic gods and goddesses
Was Winston Churchill an effective war time leader

How effective was Churchill as a war time leader?
Image: Jonathan Kemper - Unsplash Images

Deadliest swords in history
Invasion of Sicily, 1943

Prince Philip and the Invasion of Sicily
Queen Elizabeth II

15 historical moments in the life and reign of the Queen
Photograph of the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at a press conference during his visit to Finland.

60 years of space travel: From Yuri Gagarin to the Mars Rover

Winston Churchill believed he was 'destined' to become Prime Minister

Things you didn’t know about early Christianity: 8 surprising facts
The Battle of Culloden

A brief history of the Jacobite Risings
The lost gold of WW2

Treasure hunters explore tunnel booby trapped with poison gas
Norse America

Norse America: Win a copy of Norse America
Jesus and the rich young man by Heinrich Hofmann

The lost years of Jesus: The mystery of Christ's missing 18 years
A laughing fool

Act the fool: Famous court jesters and fools from history
Jonathan Swift

April Fools? A history of British hoaxes
Arctic Alone

Watch Arctic Alone season 7: Now on HISTORY PLAY
Portrait of a Young Woman c. 1540–1545 from the Workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger

Did Catherine Howard cheat on Henry VIII?