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

Battles
Severus: Rome’s first African Emperor

Ancient History
Ignatius Sancho, 1768 by Thomas Gainsborough
Black Britons who shaped history

British History
The lives of Hitler and Stalin: Two sides of the same coin

Hitler
John Demjanjuk, accused of being the infamous guard, Ivan the Terrible
Ivan the Terrible': the infamous Treblinka guard

The Holocaust
When Women’s Football Was Bigger Than Men’s

Sport
Equestrian portrait of Catherine in the Preobrazhensky Regiment's uniform, by Vigilius Eriksen | Public Domain
Catherine the Great and the coup that made her Empress

Russia
Helen Sharman's official cosmonaut photograph.Credit: Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center
HISTORY's Forgotten People: Helen Sharman

Adventurers
A derivative work by Ayenyne, from a variety of images | Wikimedia
New Year, New Decade: How Will History Remember the 2010s?
Heddy Lamarr and her plans for her secret communications system that laid the groundwork for later wireless communications like WiFI
The life of Hedy Lamarr: history’s forgotten Hollywood genius

Science and Technology
The Second Officer who survived Titanic and saved 130 lives at Dunkirk

Battles
Stalin’s daughter: the Cold War’s most famous defector

Russia
Aftermath of the Battle of Stalingrad
What if Stalingrad had fallen?

Hitler
Lyudmila Pavlichenko 'Lady Death': history's deadliest female sniper

Russia
Four infamous whistleblowers from history

Popular Culture
The violent history of Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day: A bloody love story

Popular Culture
Bust of the Emperor Caracalla who was of African descent
The history of black Britain: Roman Africans

Ancient History
Image | Fire in Rome by Hubert Robert.
Was Nero Responsible for the Great Fire of Rome?

Ancient History
What is the legacy of the Vikings?

Vikings
The real story of the Chernobyl divers

Russia
German Panzer IV and Sd.Kfz. 251 halftrack \ Wikipedia
The Battle of Kursk: the largest tank battle in history

Battles
Dr. Giovanni Borromeo and Rome's Fatebenefratelli Hospital where he sheltered Jews after the German occupation of Italy using a very cunning medical ruse
Syndrome K: the fake WW2 disease that saved Jews from the Nazis

Hitler
Captured RAF pilots in Stalag Luft III
The true story of The Great Escape

WW2
The true history of the Loch Ness monster

In search of
Neville Chamberlain: heroic peacemaker or pathetic pushover?

Hitler
The Portrait of an African Man by Jan Mostaert, 1525 | public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Black History Month and the importance of celebrating black British history

Popular Culture
A taste of the Historic Photographer of the Year Awards, Bamburgh Castle, Stephan Nicholas Brzozwski
Historic Photographer of the Year Awards
Catherine The Great
The story of Black History Month

Black History
Witches by Hans Baldung woodcut 1508 | Public Domain | Wikipedia
Witchcraft in the times of Henry VIII and beyond

Tudor History
Harald Hardrada window in Kirkwall Cathedral | Colin Smith / Harald Hardrada / CC BY-SA 2.0
Harald Hardrada: The last Viking

Vikings
Life in the Führerbunker: Hitler's final days

Hitler
Lost Relics Hamilton White on why so little Templar artefacts remain

Lost Relics of the Knights Templar
Left Carl Cookson. Right: Hamilton White
Carl Cookson and Hamilton White 'Lost Relics' interview

Lost Relics of the Knights Templar
Presidential historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin on George Washington

American History
Charles Hazlitt Upham (pictured middle) the World War Two hero was, and remains, the only combatant to receive two Victoria Crosses.
The Man Awarded Two Victoria Crosses

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