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Top 10 strange history stories

Illustration of the Zodiac Man

General ancient history

Q&AWhy did physicians ‘bleed’ their patients?

Picture of the last Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustus

Q&AWhat happened to the last emperor of Rome?

An illustrated map of Savannah, Georgia

Ye olde travel guide: Savannah, 1859

Portrait of Miranda Kaufmann. (Image by Jeni Nott)

History explorer: Africans in Tudor and Stuart Britain

Canadian troops returning from the combined operations raid at Dieppe. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

The LibraryBritain and France: Empires under fire

Portrait of King Henry VI by an unknown artist. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

The miracle of Henry VI: how the weak medieval king became a 'saint'

American actor and singer Howard Keel records 'Kiss Me Kate' with his co-star Patricia Morrison, 1964. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The growing pains of BBC Two

The value of war and the rail revolution

D-Day landings and the original singing dog: top 10 British Pathé videos

Living in the shadow of the workhouse

Top 10 photo galleries: kings and queens

Picture depicting the Articles of Union being presented to Queen Anne

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

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

A scene from the 1963 film 'Naked Among Wolves', depicting a Nazi concentration camp

The long shadow of Adolf Hitler

Shakespeare: 7 burning questions about his life

African history special

BBC History Magazine

Command and Control

An Egyptian mummy receiving a CT scan

Looking inside ancient Egyptian mummies

Picture of Punch cartoon

Q&AHow did World War I change women’s lives?

BBC History Magazine

Top 10 bizarre photo galleries

Lawrence of Arabia and the Romanov sisters

Historical sex objects to feature in classrooms

The family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, c1910.

Books interview with Helen Rappaport: the Romanov sisters

BBC History Magazine

The Men Who United the States

The Sedgeford Portrait, which is said to show Pocahontas and her young son, Thomas. (Photo by Getty)

In search of the real Pocahontas

BBC History Magazine

Captain Scott's 'lost' Antarctic pictures saved

First World War

Behind the scenes of new First World War drama The Crimson Field

BBC History Magazine

Win a pair of tickets to Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts I & II, including dinner and overnight stay in a boutique hotel

Britain in the 1970s