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Fishing for gold: how eels powered the medieval economy

The International Brigades: fighting fascism in Spain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The history of the Nobel Prizes

The Glorious Revolution: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The orphan hero who fought at Trafalgar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Huguenots vs France: who were the Huguenots and what did they believe?

Zwarte Piet: the history behind the Christmas controversy

Saturnalia: the origins of the debauched Roman 'Christmas'

Second World War

Churchill and D-Day: did the prime minister oppose the Normandy landings?

Ancient board games: which ones did people play for fun in the past?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How much of the legend of Troy is real?

Women in Greek myths. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The medieval marketplace: a time traveller’s guide to shopping in the Middle Ages

Caligula: murderous and depraved, or a victim of history?

Germans who resisted the Nazis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

'Real life battleships': the secret game that countered German U-boat attacks during WW2

Oswald, the many-headed medieval saint. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Has the EU been a success?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Your guide to...the Field of the Cloth of Gold

The Crown S4 E9 real history: Prince Charles’s ski avalanche accident and his failing marriage to Diana

The Crown S4 E1 real history: when Charles met Diana, and the death of Lord Mountbatten

War and society: a tangled relationship. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In pictures: 150 years of the British Red Cross. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ingenious medieval science. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cnut: the great Dane. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From the British Isles to Italy and Spain: how the Normans reshaped Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Personal stories of the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

Your guide to the Holocaust

Growing up in the dark shadow of trauma: Robert Rinder on the legacy of Holocaust

The story of the Dambusters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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