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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

Tudor History
Left: Only known photograph of Mary Seacole , 1873. Right: Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant) by Albert Charles Challen | Public Domain | Wikimedia
The wonderful adventures of Mrs Seacole in many lands

Black History
The House of Bonaparte: How Napoleon used his family to build an empire
The House of Bonaparte: How Napoleon used his family to build an empire

Kings and Queens
Who were the original 102 passengers on board the Mayflower?

History of America
Elizabeth I and the Tudor succession crises: 1558 - 1603

Tudor History
Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring by Laura Knight | Wikimedia | Public Domain
Civilian professions during WW2

Women's history
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

Black History
 1944 Color portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt | FDR Presidential Library & Museum | Public Domain
Surprising family links of US Presidents

History of America
Grandpa's visit Christmas morning | Picryl | Public Domain
How our ancestors celebrated Christmas

Xmas
Using Ancestry to research your family’s wartime history

WW1
Accrington Pals by Tim Green | Flickr | Wikipedia | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
The Pals battalions of World War I

WW1
Image Source: The Independent
HISTORY's Forgotten People: Walter Tull

Sport
Squadron Leader Douglas Bader, CO of No. 242 Squadron, seated on his Hawker Hurricane at Duxford, September 1940 | Public Domain
Douglas Bader, the double-amputee flying ace of the Battle of Britain

Battles
The rise and fall of Blackbeard

Black Sails
The Compiègne wagon
The Compiègne wagon: one train carriage two peace treaties

Hitler
Mohawk soldiers serving in the Canadian Corps during WW1
How the British Empire made WW1 possible

WW2 Treasure Hunters
Charles Lightloller
The Second Officer who survived Titanic and saved 130 lives at Dunkirk

Battles
History of Bonfire Night (Getty).
History of Bonfire Night

Popular Culture
How to Use Ancestry to Research Your International Family
Tsar Nicolas II (left) and George V (right) were first cousins
The Kaiser, the Tsar and King George V - cousins at war in WW1
Jamaican passengers disembark the HMT Empire Windrush at the Port of Tilbury, June 1948 | Wikipedia
The Empire Windrush and the Jamaicans who emigrated to Britain in 1948
Darwin used taxidermy to preserve Galapagos goldfinches. The differences he observed between species played an important part in developing the theory of evolution.
John Edmonstone – the man who taught Darwin

Not What You Thought You Knew
Captured RAF pilots in Stalag Luft III
The true story of The Great Escape

WW2
Left to right: 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 | Public Domain | Wikipedia
The Caribbean, Indian and African RAF pilots of WW2

Black History
Portrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Eworth
The killer king: How many people did Henry VIII execute?

Tudor History
When Women’s Football Was Bigger Than Men’s

Sport
The true history of the Loch Ness monster

In search of
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

Battles
Lower Matlock Wheel - Malcolm Nunn
The Great Sheffield Flood

Disasters
Olivia Coleman, left, plays Queen Anne in The Favorite, right a portrait of the Monarch by John Closterman
Queen Anne, Britain’s forgotten Queen

Kings and Queens
Left: British infantry at El Alamein, right: German soldiers at Stalingrad | Wikipedia
The most decisive battles of WW2

Hitler
Wernher von Braun and the V2 rocket
The death of the doodlebug: The rise and fall of Hitler’s V-weapons

WW1
Old Town Market Place
The destruction of Warsaw: the Nazi plan to obliterate a city

Battles
How to journey back in time with Ancestry’s records
Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum by John Martin
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and the destruction of Pompeii

Ancient History
26th November 1942: Armed with light machine guns, Soviet troops attack the German forces in the vicinity of the Red October plant in Stalingrad.
How Russia Won the Battle of Stalingrad

WW2