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Nelson stands in the Nile culling crocodiles in James Gillray's cartoon 'Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt' (1798). The crocodiles represent captured or destroyed French ships at the battle of the Nile, while Nelson is cast as a cross between Moses and Hercules. (Archiv Gerstenberg/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Admiral Lord Nelson: 10 days that created a legend

Pod Jane Desborough WL

Ancient Greek scientific thinking

Neville Chamberlain holds aloft the famous piece of paper at Heston aerodrome on 30 September 1938. (Picture by Alamy)

Second World War

The Munich agreement: a battle with Hitler that almost brought down the government

Outbreak of dance mania

The medieval dancing plague: what caused people to dance themselves to death?

A depiction of the French and Indian War, with George Washington on horseback

A guide to the Seven Years’ War

Residents of Palermo, Sicily, line the streets to greet the American Sherman tanks after the town had surrendered to the Allies

Second World War

The battle for Sicily: breaking into Fortress Europe

Pod Tessa Dunlop WL

Second World War

Women who served in WW2

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Emma Dabiri "The Harder They Fall doesn’t engage with one of the main drivers behind the violence"

Winston Churchill discusses the invasion of Sicily with other senior Allied figures in 1943

Second World War

Operation Mincemeat: how a corpse duped Hitler ahead of the invasion of Sicily

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton, the great Antarctic explorer of the Heroic Age

A group of BBC staff surround a large piece of broadcasting equipment

BBC at 100 The BBC begins: how a group of radio pioneers launched one of Britain’s most famous institutions

Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in mounted combat

Richard the Lionheart: king of war

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Malcolm Gaskill The Ruin of All Witches

Pod Malcolm Gaskill WL

A forgotten witch hunt in New England

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Michael Wood on the Parthenon Sculptures "The case is unique: the sculptures are bound up with Greek identity"