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Why Does Everyone Hate the English : Episodes

Why Does Everyone Hate the English : Episodes
Crazy Horse as depicted in Robert Redford's American West

Who Was Crazy Horse?
Win a copy of Renia's Diary, a new classic in Holocaust literature

Win a copy of Renia's Diary, a new classic in Holocaust literature
A close-up of the front of the US 10-dollar bill bearing the portrait of Alexander Hamilton

Who was Alexander Hamilton?
A photograph of an old US bank and saloon

Who features in Robert Redford's The West?
Win a Copy of The Spy by Andrew Gross

Win a Copy of The Spy by Andrew Gross
The Vikings are coming...

Where the Vikings Left their Mark
The Sky HISTORY brand logo

WW2 British Command Centres
A photograph of an eruption of the Anak Krakatau volcanoes in Indonesia

What Would Happen if a Supervolcano Erupted?
A photograph of The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on the 9th August 1945

Why Did Japan Really Surrender in WW2?
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, by William Halsall | Wikipedia

The Mayflower and the birth of America
Auschwitz

The Great Sonderkommando Revolt of 1944
The most decisive battles of WW2

The most decisive battles of WW2
A photograph of Rock of Cashel in Ireland

The Most Picturesque Places in…Ireland
A burning model of The Great Fire of London, 1212

The Great Fire of London, 1212
A photograph of Beaumaris Castle in Wales

The most picturesque places in…Wales
What do we know in the case of the Charles Manson Killings?

The Murders of Charles Manson
A portrait of Toussaint Louverture

Toussaint Louverture and the birth of Haiti
A stock image of Santa Claus with a blurry warped background

How psychedelics may have inspired the story of Santa
A photograph of an empty dinner plate

Top Cajun Cuisine To Eat While Watching Swamp People
A portrait head bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (called Caracalla).

The history of black Britain: Roman Africans
A graphic showing planet Earth and the nuclear symbol

The Man Who Saved The World
Soldiers clear bomb damage in Hull

The Hull Blitz
Lieutenant Onoda

The Japanese soldier who kept on fighting after WW2 had finished
Tom Cullen as Landry de Lauzon, series 2, episode 2: 'The Devil Inside'

The Knights Templar and the Temple of Solomon
King Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger

The history of the English Reformation
A close-up of a map of the UK

UK, Great Britain, British Isles – the difference explained
Into the jaws of death' | US troops disembark from a LCVP craft onto Omaha beach 6 June 1944

The largest seaborne invasion in history: The story of D-Day
A photograph of British bank notes

The History of Money
A WW1 helmet on poppies

The unbelievable wartime exploits of AD Wintle
Emmeline Pankhurst founded the WSPU in 1903

The lives of the Suffragettes
Three pumpkin lanterns

The History of Halloween
The factory wall in Crewe

The making of 'This Wall is Crewe', winner of 'HISTORY's short filmmaker of the year 2018'
The Real Vikings: Clive Standen Interview

The Real Vikings: Clive Standen Interview
The Strongest Man In History: episodes

The Strongest Man In History: episodes
Entrance to underground military bunker in the forest.

The UK’s Secret WW2 Bunkers