Location

Why is the American city of Cincinnati named after a hero of ancient Rome?

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Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

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The Dangerous Trade

Ruby Sparks: the smash-and-grab gangster.

Communist sport: Cold War copycats.

Robert Burns: the people’s poet.

My history hero: Christopher Clayton Hutton (1893–1965).

John Leland: The man who saved medieval knowledge.

Toilers of the deep: the lives of Edwardian deep sea fishermen

The Abingdon Sword, an iron sword fragment and hilt found near Abingdon in Oxfordshire in 1874. The decoration on the sword hilt indicates this was a high status weapon dating from around AD 875. (Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Fighting the Vikings.

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Jenkins’ Ear?

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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City

Second World War

The Triumph of the Dark: European International History, 1933–1939

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The Admiral Benbow: The Life and Times of a Naval Legend

Stonehenge, aerial view

General prehistory

Book review: A History of Ancient Britain

A pregnant woman receives a piece of beef

"A taste for husbands' buttocks": the bizarre history of pregnancy cravings.

Gold Mining At Mount Alexander

Convicts and colonisers: the early history of Australia.

North Korea’s nuclear ambitions

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The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land

A secret war against the Tudors.

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Race for the South Pole: the Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen

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Galileo

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Bloodied Banners: Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield

England in miniature.

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Zulu Rising

The American Civil War in 3 films

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The Liberty Bell

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Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox

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Revolutionaries: Inventing an American Nation

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The American ‘Occupation’ of Britain: Three films