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Happy Halloween, but do you know the history?
The History of Halloween

Popular Culture
Simone Segouin a French Partisan Who Captured 25 Nazis in the Chartres Region | Public Domain | Wikipedia
Women in the French Resistance

Women's history
Unidentified's Luis Elizondo
Luis Elizondo Unidentifed season two interview

Unidentified
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
Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring by Laura Knight | Wikimedia | Public Domain
Civilian professions during WW2

Ancestry
Miss Lala, born Anna Olga Albertina Brown was a famous 19th-century acrobat | Public Domain | Wikipedia
How ‘Not What You Thought You Knew's’ Dr Fern Riddell uses Ancestry

Ancestry
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
History of the Oseberg Viking Burial Ship

Medieval History
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Top 10 Tips for photographing historic places
The history of the Viking Age

Vikings
1968 Olympics Black Power salute

Black History
Black History Month on Sky History
HISTORY Play
Roman mosaic of a woman, British Museum | Pixabay | Public Domain
The Ivory Bangle Lady and the multi-culturalism of Roman Britain

Not What You Thought You Knew
Douglas Bader
Harold Rex Interfectus Est | Bayeaux Tapestry | Public Domain
­­­­­­How the Battle of Hastings was won

Battles
The Lagina brothers: net worth & biggest finds

The Curse of Oak Island
Picture of SS-Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller | Public Domain | Wikipedia
Heinrich Müller: The highest-ranking Nazi who got away

WW2
Darwin used taxidermy to preserve Galapagos goldfinches. The differences he observed between species played an important part in developing the theory of evolution.
John Edmonstone – the man who taught Darwin

Not What You Thought You Knew
British women who changed the world

Popular Culture
Hunting Eichmann - Capturing the Notorious Nazi Fugitive

The Holocaust
Convent of Christ Castle in Tomar, Portugal, a former Templar stronghold
Holy Money: How the Knights Templars got so Rich

Knightfall
Black History Month | The battle against racism continues

Black History
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi photographed as a young man in South Africa in 1909
Before he became Mahatma: Gandhi in South Africa
Severus: Rome’s first African Emperor

Ancient History
Ignatius Sancho, 1768 by Thomas Gainsborough
Black Britons who shaped history

British History
The lives of Hitler and Stalin: Two sides of the same coin

Hitler
John Demjanjuk, accused of being the infamous guard, Ivan the Terrible
Ivan the Terrible': the infamous Treblinka guard

The Holocaust
Equestrian portrait of Catherine in the Preobrazhensky Regiment's uniform, by Vigilius Eriksen | Public Domain
Catherine the Great and the coup that made her Empress

Russia
Helen Sharman's official cosmonaut photograph.Credit: Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center
HISTORY's Forgotten People: Helen Sharman

Adventurers
A derivative work by Ayenyne, from a variety of images | Wikimedia
New Year, New Decade: How Will History Remember the 2010s?
Stalin’s daughter: the Cold War’s most famous defector

Russia
Aftermath of the Battle of Stalingrad
What if Stalingrad had fallen?

Hitler
Lyudmila Pavlichenko 'Lady Death': history's deadliest female sniper

Russia
Four infamous whistleblowers from history

Popular Culture