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Charlotte Hodgman
[17th July 2012 - 09.27]
The latest issue of BBC History Magazine is now on sale. In our new edition Marc Morris explores why extensive castle-building was key to William the...
Charlotte Hodgman
[16th July 2012 - 14.34]
Sadly, this year's Festival of History at Kelmarsh Hall, Northampton, was cancelled due to the extreme wet weather.
The rain may still be falling,...
Eugene Byrne
[13th July 2012 - 11.23]
Author and historian Eugene Byrne takes a look at an example of British anti-German propaganda during the Second World War, Das Englandlied. "...
Charlotte Hodgman
[12th July 2012 - 16.41]
Eighteen historic wrecks on the seabed of Scapa Flow at Orkney have been mapped as part of a new sub-sea survey commissioned by Historic Scotland....
Thomas Popejoy
[6th July 2012 - 10.48]
A copy of a rare 16th-century map, known as ‘the birth certificate of America’, has been discovered between the pages of a 19th-century...
Eugene Byrne
[6th July 2012 - 09.37]
A West German businessman was driving his Mercedes through East Germany. It was a rainy night, and his windscreen wipers stopped working.
He stopped...
Robert Seatter
[1st July 2012 - 07.22]
The Wimbledon Tennis Championships, shown on BBC Two, marked the beginning of regular colour television in Britain.
David Attenborough, then...
Eugene Byrne
[29th June 2012 - 10.28]
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most...
Rob Attar
[29th June 2012 - 09.30]
We preview the best new apps, websites and podcasts for fans of history. From Dan Snow's Second World War iPad app to a history podcast with a...
Charlotte Hodgman
[28th June 2012 - 13.16]
Archaeologists in Cambridge have unearthed the remains of a woman buried with a cow. The grave, thought to date to the late 5th century AD, was...
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