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A close-up of the front of the US 10-dollar bill bearing the portrait of Alexander Hamilton

Who was Alexander Hamilton?
Crazy Horse as depicted in Robert Redford's American West

Who Was Crazy Horse?
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Who was HH Holmes?
Sitting Bull as depicted in Robert Redford's The West

Who Was Sitting Bull?

The Varangian Guards, an illumination from the Skylitzis Chronicle

Who were the Varangian Guard?
A shadow silhouette of a bat in a light beam

Why Did Batman and Superman Go Mainstream?
A photograph of The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on the 9th August 1945

Why Did Japan Really Surrender in WW2?
Why Does Everyone Hate the English : Episodes

Why Does Everyone Hate the English : Episodes
Martin Luther King

Why were so many American political figures assassinated in the 1960s?
Win a copy of 'Lancaster' by John Nichol

Win a copy of 'Lancaster' by John Nichol
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
Win a Copy of The Spy by Andrew Gross

Win a Copy of The Spy by Andrew Gross
This Autumn HISTORY digs a little deeper into WW2 with World War True, featuring Madness frontman Suggs (pictured).

World War True: A Season of WW2 Shows
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WW2 British Command Centres
We are giving away 10 limited edition Tin Amp portable tin speakers

WW2 Treasure Hunters competition
A Supermarine Spitfire doing a manoeuvre

WW2's greatest air battles
Welcome to Stephen's garage.

Your Answers to Stephen Taylor’s Unidentified Objects
A foggy scene in London

The Day London Vanished

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The day Sir Ranulph Fiennes lost his fingers
Tony Law

The de Havilland Mosquito - the 'wooden wonder'
The Ludgate Hill area of London during the 'Blitz' in WW2

The decline in the UK's awareness of WW2 facts
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The drug that fuelled the Nazi Blitzkrieg
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The Easter Rising: the spark that ignited a nation
Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum by John Martin

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD
A photograph of England flag bunting hanging up outside

The Forgotten Invincible England Team of the 1982 World Cup
A photograph of a modern map of Sheffield

The Great Sheffield Flood
Battle of Hampton Roads

The greatest naval battles of all time
Emmeline Pankhurst

The history of International Women's Day
The Giza pyramid complex in Egypt

The History of Pyramids
Destroyed graves in an abandoned Jewish cemetery in Krakow, Poland, near the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp

The horrors of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland

The Incredible Story of Love and Survival at Auschwitz
The Knights of St Lazarus

The Knights of St Lazarus
Portrait of Puyi

The Last Emperor: The final ruler of China's Qing dynasty
Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr: The Hollywood starlet who helped invent WiFi
The first and last President of the Confederate lost the war along with his loot

The Lost Confederate Gold of Jefferson Davis, the Outlaw President
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The Man Awarded Two Victoria Crosses