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Dwight Enys. (Image Credit: Mammoth Screen / BBC

The real history behind 'Poldark' series three: episode seven

TV & radio: what to tune in to next week (22–28 July 2017)

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Dunkirk

August 2017 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

The northern lights over a house in Arctic Norway ©AWL Images

My favourite place: Arctic Norway

The German command HQ on the eastern front at Rastenburg, where a bomb failed to

Should we be glad the plot to kill Hitler failed?

August/September issue of BBC World Histories out now!

Lucy Worsley photographed at Royal Crescent, Bath. “Jane would often go to stay

Austen’s influences: Lucy Worsley on the author’s life and work

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18 July 1969 – A woman drowns as the Kennedy curse strikes again

Men of the Long Range Desert Group returning from a three-month trip behind enem

Desert raiders: the Long Range Desert Group in the Second World War

Poldark. (Image Credit: BBC/Mammoth Screen/Robert Viglasky)

The real history behind 'Poldark' series three: episode six

The Sweet Makers. (Image Credit: BBC/Wall to Wall South/Joe Jackson)

TV & radio: what to tune in to next week (15–21 July 2017)

Power plays and scheming queens: the ancient history behind 'Game of Thrones'

Toys and games that killed in Tudor England

History Weekends return to York and Winchester this autumn

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