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A stylised photo of Chichén Itzá in Mérida, Mexico
5 legendary lost cities of gold from Akakor to El Dorado

Curse of Lost Amazon Gold
Photo of the 303 squadron
Fighter Boys: The heroic Polish pilots of the Battle of Britain

WW2
Photo of a projector and a World War Two image of a flugzeugträger bombing
WW2 films based on real-life events from The Great Escape to Dambusters

WW2
Gottlieb grip tester lands
Stunning restoration of a 1930s penny arcade strength tester

Pawn Stars
The 'singing' swords of Saladin
The 'singing' swords of Saladin

Forged In Fire
The Battle of Britain

British History
The original Gawain and the Green Knight manuscript and a green sword
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The quintessential chivalric romance

Medieval History
Edinburgh Castle
5 historic British holiday destinations

British History
Punishment of Ixion
Who were the major Roman gods and goddesses?

Ancient History
'Freyja and the Necklace' by James Doyle Penrose, 1890
The most powerful goddesses in Norse mythology

Vikings
A dummy tank
Operation Dissimulation: WW2's biggest deception campaigns

WW2
The Charge of the Light Brigade
What was the worst military decision in history?

Battles
Unidentified's Luis Elizondo
I find the truth.' Luis Elizondo Unidentified S2 interview

Unidentified
The Berlin Wall Potsdamer Platz November 1975, Edward Valachovic
Division, defiance and defection, the history of the Berlin Wall

Battles
Berlin Wall
The Bethkes vs Berlin Wall: How three brothers escaped East Berlin

Cold War
Robert Hanssen
Perfect traitors: Robert Hanssen and Kim Philby

Damian Lewis Spy Wars
Thor's Fight with the Giants
Seven of the most important gods and goddesses in Norse mythology

Vikings
Margaret Thatcher
How Thatcher broke the miners' strike but at what cost?

Popular Culture
Anne Boleyn
The Rise and Fall of the Boleyns

Kings and Queens
The Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada: 5 facts about Tudor England's biggest naval victory

British History
Margaret Beaufort
The kingmaker Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor dynasty
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake: Hero or Villain?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What if Hiroshima and Nagasaki never happened?

WW2
Paul Tibbets infront of the Enola Gay
Paul Tibbets: The pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

WW2
Spoon carving
60 Seconds of Skill: Q&A with spoon carver Jojo Wood

Craft
Megan Hune
'It'd be very easy to just vanish': Megan Hine on hunting for the lost city of Akakor

Curse of Lost Amazon Gold
Adam Jenkins
60 Seconds of Skill: Q&A with archery instructor Adam Jenkins

Craft
Leather worker Hamish Lamley
60 Seconds of Skill: Q&A with leather worker Hamish Lamley

Craft
Lettice Curtis, Jenny Broad, Wendy Sale Barker, Gabrielle Patterson and Pauline Gower of the Air Transport Auxilary in 1942 | Public Domain | Wikimedia
The women of the Battle of Britain

Women's history
Bats
Project X-ray: America's secret WW2 plan to drop bat bombs on Japan
The Spanish Armada and King Phillip II
What if the Spanish Armada had succeeded?

Tudor History
9 Famous Olympic Cheaters

Sport
Alida Lopes and her classmates
The moving true story of a Jewish girl and her friends in occupied Amsterdam

The Holocaust
1899 underwater photo of oceanographer Emil Racoviță (left), Edmond Halley's diving bell (right)
A brief history of diving

Sport
The executioner Franz Schmidt executing Hans Fröschel
Hang 'em High: 7 of history's most famous executioners
A helmet once owned by Heinrich Himmler
The Nazi hunt for holy treasure from Thor's Hammer to the Holy Grail

Lost Relic Hunters