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What is Picking?
A photograph of the 1964 Volkswagen Beetle

What makes the VW Beetle Iconic?

The Charge of the Light Brigade

What was the worst military decision in history?
What's coming up in Curse of Oak Island season 7

What's coming up in Curse of Oak Island season 7
What's coming up in The Unxplained season 1 part B

What's coming up in The Unxplained season 1 part B
A photo of Dick, Kerr Ladies team in 1921

When women’s football was bigger than men’s
A stock photograph of a modern crime scene in the UK

Where to see the Ripper’s crime scenes
Which HISTORY presenter are you?

Which HISTORY presenter are you?
Alone Lost and Found exclusive to HISTORY

Who is your History survival buddy?

Billy The Kid as depicted in Robert Redford's The West.

Who Was Billy The Kid?

General Custer as depicted in Robert Redford's American West

Who Was General Custer?

Jesse James (right) as depicted in Robert Redford's American West

Who Was Jesse James?

Wyatt Earp as depicted in Robert Redford's The West.

Who Was Wyatt Earp?
Marble bas-relief and sculptures of Roman soldiers

Why did Ancient Rome fall?

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Why did de Gaulle hate the English?
A stock image of an ancient sword of the Order of the Knights Templar and a calendar showing Friday 13th

Why Friday the 13th was the unluckiest day for the Templars
A stock image of a copy of the Magna Carta

Why Magna Carta matters?
Win a copy of D-Day by Michael Noble

Win a copy of D-Day by Michael Noble
Win a copy of Scientifica Historica by Brian Clegg

Win a copy of Scientifica Historica by Brian Clegg
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Win a copy of The Volunteer, a story of resistance at Auschwitz
An army photo of Witold Pilecki

Witold Pilecki: the man who volunteered for Auschwitz
Richard Nixon

Worse than Watergate: Nixon’s greatest treachery
WW2 Treasure Hunter's Stephen Taylor out on a dig.

WW2 Treasure Hunter Stephen Taylor is back
WW2 Treasure Hunters - The Bomb Factory Revisited

WW2 Treasure Hunters - The Bomb Factory Revisited
WW2 Treasure Hunters series 2: episodes

WW2 Treasure Hunters series 2: episodes
A stock image of gold bars

Yamashita's Gold
Portrait of Prince Albert by John Partridge

The German kings and queens of England
A burning model of The Great Fire of London, 1212

The Great Fire of London, 1212
Auschwitz

The Great Sonderkommando Revolt of 1944
A portrait head bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (called Caracalla).

The history of black Britain: Roman Africans
Three pumpkin lanterns

The History of Halloween
A photograph of British bank notes

The History of Money
King Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger

The history of the English Reformation
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