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Listen to Not What You Thought You Knew S2

Listen to Not What You Thought You Knew S2
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
A photograph of a theatre 'Stage Door' sign

5 Theatrical Traditions and Where They Come From
A painting of Chevalier d'Eon

Chevalier d'Eon: Gender non-conformity in the 18th century

A Timber wolf or Grey Wolf in Quebec, Canada

5 ways to survive a Wolf attack
A stock photo of a Viking Hat

Harald Hardrada: The last Viking
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River Hunters in Durham

Rick and Beau incredible discovery from Durham’s riverside
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The unsung heroes of WW2: Gurkhas

The unsung heroes of WW2: Gurkhas
Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring by Laura Knight | Wikimedia | Public Domain

Civilian professions during WW2
A spitfire

How the Battle of Britain was won?
The 'Darnley' portrait of Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I and the Tudor succession crises: 1558 - 1603
A marble bust of Hannibal

Hannibal: The African general who almost toppled Rome
Was Churchill’s Dardanelles offensive doomed to fail?

Was Churchill’s Dardanelles offensive doomed to fail?
What were the true motives of the Spartans at Thermopylae?

What were the true motives of the Spartans at Thermopylae?
Unidentified S2: Episodes

Unidentified S2: Episodes
A photograph of the arch of Septimius Severus (203 AD) and the ruins of the Roman Forum in Rome, Italy.

Severus: Rome’s first African Emperor
Who were the original 102 passengers on board the Mayflower?

Who were the original 102 passengers on board the Mayflower?
How to journey back in time with Ancestry’s records

How to journey back in time with Ancestry’s records
A school's own air raid shelter

A school's own air raid shelter
The House of Bonaparte: How Napoleon used his family to build an empire

How Napoleon used his family to build an empire
An illustration of HMS Brisk and Emanuela

The blockade of Africa: The West African Squadron
Enola Gay

The pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Torii, Nagasaki, Japan

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The aftermath
AC W P Ince of British Guiana, AC E Johnson of Jamaica and AC S E Johnson of Jamaica) during a passing out parade of West Indians at a Royal Air Force station in Yorkshire

The Caribbean, Indian and African RAF pilots of WW2
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Eworth

How many people did Henry VIII execute?
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
Slave Ship by JWM Turner and portrait of Olaudah Equiano by Daniel Orme

Olaudah Equiano and the Zong Massacre
A bright white light and a staircase in the sky

Ancient Egypt: death and the afterlife
British forces in Bapaume, France during WW1

Tanks in the World Wars
Simone Segouin a French Partisan Who Captured 25 Nazis in the Chartres Region | Public Domain | Wikipedia

Women in the French Resistance
Sir Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill’s most famous WW2 speeches
Lettice Curtis, Jenny Broad, Wendy Sale Barker, Gabrielle Patterson and Pauline Gower of the Air Transport Auxilary in 1942 | Public Domain | Wikimedia

The women of the Battle of Britain
Left: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by Philip James de Loutherbourg. Right: King Philip II of Spain | Public Domain | Wikipedia

The Westray Dons' and the Spanish Armada
Left: Hitler in uniform 1921-1924 | Public Domain. Right: Pte Henry Tandey Victoria Cross | public display at the Duke of Wellington's Regimental Museum, Halifax

The man who didn't shoot Hitler
Rasputin prior 1917 | Public Domain | Wikimedia

The life and death of Rasputin: Part 3
Grigory Rasputin, Major General Putyatin and Colonel Loman | Public Domain | Wikimedia

The life and death of Rasputin: Part 2