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What if JFK was never shot?
Italy Detachment 2nd SAS Regiment - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Italy_Detachment_2nd_SAS_Regiment.jpg
How did the SAS carry out its first postwar covert operations?

Military History
Medieval Myths Dispelled

Britains Bloodiest Dynasty
Knight Fight: a brief history of armour

Knight Fight
Paulus Hector Mair, de arte athletica, 1540s) | Wikipedia | Public Domain
Medieval Life: The Best & Worst Bits

Britains Bloodiest Dynasty
Henry V
The Calendar Riots of 1752: When Britain lost 11 days

Popular Culture
George IV of the United Kingdom by Henry Bone | Public Domain
Language and politeness in Regency Britain

British History
We're giving away five copies of The SS Officer’s Armchair. Find out how you can take part
Win a copy of The SS Officer’s Armchair
1899 underwater photo of oceanographer Emil Racoviță (left), Edmond Halley's diving bell (right)
A brief history of diving

Sport
Mametz, Western Front, a winter scene, painting by Frank Crozier | Public Domain
Lesser known facts about The Battle of the Somme

WW1
The German kings and queens of England

Al Murray Why Does Everyone Hate the English
Catherine Howard

Kings and Queens
10 Fast Facts About the Plantagenets

Britains Bloodiest Dynasty
Code Breaking

WW2
Saddam Hussein
Wilhelm Zahn
The U-Boat commander who almost killed Churchill
Did the Mob kill JFK? New evidence suggests they did.

Mysteries
Justin Salinger plays Ulysses S. Grant in Grant
Interview with Justin Salinger, star of 'Grant'

Grant
The Polish cryptographers who cracked the Enigma code
The secret mission to select the Unknown Warrior

Mysteries
Saddam Speaks in Court | Public Domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein#/media/File:Saddam_Hussein_at_trial,_July_2004.JPEG | P
Operation Red Dawn: The mission that snared Saddam Hussein

Modern History
The history of Japanese knife making

Food and Drink
The coffin of the Unknown Warrior in state in the Abbey in 1920 | Wikipedia
‘Unknown by name or rank’: The grave of the Unknown Warrior

WW1
Heddy Lamarr and her plans for her secret communications system that laid the groundwork for later wireless communications like WiFI
The life of Hedy Lamarr: history’s forgotten Hollywood genius

Science and Technology
10 little known facts about WW1

WW1
Traditional Japanese knives and their uses
Geisha and the art of Japanese Beauty
Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Eldest son of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart. Painted by William Mosman around 1730 | Public Domain
Bonnie Prince Charlie: Rebel prince

British History
Who Was Bonnie Prince Charlie?
Edith Wilson, America's First (Acting) Female President

Politics
Slave Ship by JWM Turner and portrait of Olaudah Equiano by Daniel Orme | Public Domain
Olaudah Equiano and the Zong Massacre

Black History
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
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