A Red Cross worker in the United States, 1918

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How did Spanish Flu get its name? When did our ancestors start using toilet paper? Why did the famous Crystal Palace burn down? And where was the WW1 Armistice signed? Here, your most burning questions about history are answered by historians and experts…

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20th Century

Q&AWho won the first FIFA World Cup?

How did it become a gesture of well-wishing to say to an actor before they go on stage "break a leg"? (Photo by Andrys Lukowski via iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Ancient Greece

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Break a leg’?

The Stygian Lake in the Fifth Circle of Hell from from Dante’s epic poem 'The Inferno'. The phrase "Paint the town red" may originate from the sentence in the poem "we are they who painted the world scarlet with sins". (Photo by Getty Images)

Medieval

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Paint the town red’?

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Georgian

Q&ACould you really once be hanged for impersonating a Chelsea Pensioner?

Portrait of Henry VIII

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Napoleon in exile

Georgian

Q&AWhy was Napoleon exiled to St Helena?

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General prehistory

Q&AWhere and when was wine first made?

Photo of cat in cat flap

Medieval

Q&AHow old is the cat flap?

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Illustration of the Zodiac Man

General ancient history

Q&AWhy did physicians ‘bleed’ their patients?

Picture of the last Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustus

Roman

Q&AWhat happened to the last emperor of Rome?

Picture depicting the Articles of Union being presented to Queen Anne

Stuart

Q&AWhy did Scotland join the 1707 Union with England?

Roman

Q&AWhat does it mean to 'cross the Rubicon'?

Picture of Punch cartoon

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The Palace of Westminster

Tudor

Q&AWhy do we call the British government ‘Whitehall’?

Photo of a bishop's mitre

Roman

Q&AWhy are bishops called Pontiffs?

Photo of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie

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Q&AHow did the world go to war in 1914?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Mount Grace Priory

Medieval

Q&Ahttps://www.historyextra.com/period/what-was-a-charterhouse/

Picture depicting the Battle of Waterloo

Georgian

Q&AWho was the bravest man at Waterloo?

Watercolour painting of the Battle of Agincourt

Medieval

Q&AWho paid for the arrows in the Battle of Agincourt?

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Q&AAre there any rulers of England that don’t appear on the usual lists?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Picture of the charge of the 4th Hussars at the battle of Friedland

Tudor

Q&AWhat were hussar regiments?

Photo of Clifford Tower in York

Tudor

Q&AWhat was the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Photo of Lincoln Cathedral

Medieval

Q&AWhat overtook the Great Pyramid of Giza as the tallest manmade structure?

A depiction of the battle of Naseby

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Did Roundheads and Cavaliers really dress so differently?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A glass of wine and dish

Georgian

Q&AWhich are the oldest surviving restaurants in London?

First World War

Conspiracy to murder?

Medieval

Disability history

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