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Caveman Rob and Adam Thorn hold their arms after being stung

10 free episodes you can watch on History PLAY in March 2023
Odette Sansom in front of a George Cross Medal

3 women who won the George Cross 
A fortune telling crystal

Did Nostradamus really predict the rise of Adolf Hitler?
A statue of Vlad the impaler

Vlad the Impaler: 7 gruesome acts by the man who inspired Dracula
Jerry Abershawe depicted in a cigarette card from the 1920s

Stand and deliver! Britain's most famous highwaymen and women
Colourised photo of two Wrens reassembling a pom-pom gun in WWII

Wrens: The history of the Women's Royal Naval Service
A woman with a ash crucifix on her forehead

'Remember that you are dust': The history of Ash Wednesday
Admiral Karl Dönitz in U-Boat Wargamers

Admiral Karl Dönitz: Head of the Nazi's U-Boats and Hitler's successor
Sam Naz with director Christopher Hanvey on set

Behind the scenes of new short film Liberté with its writer and star, Sam Naz
Molly Vevers as Jean Laidlaw

'We should celebrate what they achieved': U-Boat Wargamers interview
The history of Pancake Day

The pagan roots of Pancake Day and Shrove Tuesday
A still from U-Boat Wargamers

U-Boat Wargamers: Episode Guide
Noor Inayat Khan

The life of Noor Inayat Khan: An unsung hero of WWII
Naval officers inspecting a map

U-Boat Wargamers: A historic timeline of events
Nicola Sturgeon

A brief history of the Scottish Independence movement
Theda Bara as Cleopatra

Walk like an Egyptian: The Ancient Egypt craze of the 1920s
Aerial shot of the Thornborough Henges site

The history of the 'Stonehenge of the North'
Lupercalia

The pagan roots of Valentine's Day
The Humiliation of Emperor Valerian

8 strangest deaths of history's ancient rulers
A Victorian Valentine's card

5 romantic Victorian Valentine's Day traditions
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in 'Cleopatra'

5 great romances of the 20th century 
A sign next to a rose saying 'Happy Valentine's Day'

The strange history of Valentine’s Day cards 
The death of Captain Cook

3 bloody and brutal events that happened on Valentine's Day
Frederick Douglass

3 iconic Black civil rights activists born on Valentine's Day
Dr Brett Lockyer and Professor Alice Roberts standing next to a prosthetic body

Royal Autopsy: S1 Episode Guide
The launching of a German U-Boat

The history of Germany's deadly U-boats
A hammer and gavel

The scandalous trial that paved the way for British LGBT+ liberation
U-Boat Wargamers

The story of the U-Boat Wargamers 
Sam Naz playing Noor Inayat Khan in Liberté

'She smashes stereotypes': Liberté star on Noor Inayat Khan WW2 spy and heroine
A photograph of Nelson Mandela during an event in London, 2006

Major historical anniversaries in February 
Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas

6 famous LGBT+ couples from British history 
Craig Charles and Sarah Cruddas

10 free episodes you can watch on History PLAY in February 2023
Capture of the Pirate, Blackbeard, 1718, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, painted in 1920 | Public Domain

The most notorious pirates from Blackbeard to Anne Bonny
Painting print of German sailors standing on the conning tower of a U-boat after torpedoing a British cargo ship.

Germany’s most successful U-Boats from WWII  
A stock image of a clock face overlaid on a graphic of the world

Tick-tock: Everything you need to know about the Doomsday Clock
Seamen raise the White Ensign over a captured U-boat (colourised)

The Battle of the Atlantic: The longest military campaign of WWII