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Eugene Byrne
[11th May 2012 - 10.53]
This week's historical funny has been penned, as ever, by author and historian Eugene Byrne, and considers a satirical paper from the First World War...
William Jones
[10th May 2012 - 17.16]
A new study by a Cambridge University team is believed to have ended the debate over the domestication of horses, claiming they were first tamed 6,...
Eugene Byrne
[4th May 2012 - 06.58]
In April 1832, Joseph Thomson, a farmer, went into Carlisle with his wife and announced his intention to sell her by auction.
Mrs Thomson was seated...
Charlotte Hodgman
[3rd May 2012 - 16.35]
Scientists using advanced nanotechnology have successfully located traces of blood from Ötzi the Iceman, whose frozen body was found in Italy in...
Charlotte Hodgman
[27th April 2012 - 12.04]
Sixteenth-century playwright Thomas Middleton was the most likely co-author of William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, according...
Eugene Byrne
[27th April 2012 - 08.07]
This week's historical laugh, devised as ever by author and historian Eugene Byrne, explores Johnson's Dictionary, a humorous work written by Dr...
Charlotte Hodgman
[24th April 2012 - 07.46]
The latest issue of BBC History Magazine is now on sale. In our new edition Paulina Kewes considers the sources that contributed to William...
Eugene Byrne
[20th April 2012 - 07.47]
Paris, Thursday July 29, 1830 ... The city was gripped by rioting and armed insurrection as the people rose in revolt against the king of six years,...
Charlotte Hodgman
[19th April 2012 - 16.49]
Historian Dave Barter has been speaking about Tommy Goodwin, the man who cycled 75,065 miles in a single year. Goodwin, who would have celebrated his...
Justin Pollard
[18th April 2012 - 08.15]
“The Romans brought proper roads to Britain”
What did the Romans ever do for us? Famously they gave us roads, which began...
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