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Christmas history myths DEBUNKED | The origins you never knew.

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Julius Caesar's hellraising youth: did he really defy tyrants and crucify pirates?.

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From goat eyelids to bread: history's 12 strangest sex toys.

Painting of the first Thanksgiving

Think you know everything about the history of Thanksgiving? Here’s 21 facts that will prove you wrong

A depiction of Roman communal toilets

Tales of the toilet: a historical A–Z.

A painting of a ship with several white sails and flags on it. In front of the ship, there are large crowds of people in small boats

Not 1066 again! Should we ditch our obsession with dates?.

An illustration showing a samurai soldier dressed in a black and blue robe. Behind him is a person holding up a bar with two buckets of poo hanging from it.

Let’s think before we flush, with Dr Christopher Harding.

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Spectral beasts and hounds of hell: a spooky history of Britain's ghost dogs.

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"Imagine starting a life with so little": the stories of South Asians in Britain.

Two pictures of women, one modern day one looking at the camera, the other Victorian facing towards the right sit in circular frames against an orange background

My history hero: Rain Newton-Smith chooses Helen Keller (1880-1968).

A selection of illustrations of medical procedures, including childbirth and someone vomiting, around a circular chart that depicts flasks of different coloured urine

Marvellous medieval medicine: why their curious cures were better than you think.

The REAL history behind 'All Creatures Great and Small'.

Frances Forsyte (Tuppence Middleton) and Jolyon Forsyte Jr (Danny Griffin) of new drama The Forsytes, against a backdrop of 19th-century stockbrokers in London. (Images by Getty Images/Mammoth Productions/Masterpiece)

The real history behind The Forsytes

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Kavita Puri's hidden histories: the enduring appeal of archaeological sites.

Episode 7Tudor love and sex: inside the 16th-century bedroom.

Episode 4Tudor childhood: what were children's lives like in the 16th century?.

Episode 6Keeping clean in the 16th-century: how often did ordinary Tudors wash?.

Episode 5What did ordinary Tudors eat?.

A painting shows a topless woman sitting up in bed, holding her hand against the face of the man leaning over her

What did the Tudors think was ‘good’ sex? These tips and tricks were key to relationships in the 16th century

Episode 2Tudor religion: what did people believe?.

Episode 1What did Tudor people do for fun?.

Episode 3Tudor work: what jobs did people do?.

Two men stand next to each other holding large guns. They are dressed in black suits and ties with sunglasses and are standing against a blue and black background. Above them, the words "MIB: MEN IN BLACK" are written

Gray Barker: UFO conspiracy theorist.

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Let’s get things done together, like the builders of Stonehenge did.

Anthony Boyle and Louis Partridge star as Arthur and Edward Guinness

Is House of Guinness a true story? Here’s the real history behind the Netflix drama

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Michael Wood on women's contributions to the Bayeux Tapestry.

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Alice Roberts: “Christianity didn’t invent itself as an empire from nothing: it adapted existing Roman structures”.

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The sinister secrets of Samuel Pepys.

A montage of images showing a man standing in the ruins of Hiroshima; a man dressed smartly wearing circular glasses; and a Japanese family with two parents sitting down with five children around them

Senkichi Awaya: the lost mayor of Hiroshima.

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Why we should be better about talking about death, with Dr Helen Gittos.