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Man may have sailed the sea 130,000 years ago

General prehistory

Skara Brae

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.

Pride and Prejudice takes the top spot

Gold Mining At Mount Alexander

Convicts and colonisers: the early history of Australia.

North Korea’s nuclear ambitions

Burma: Why its military dictatorship still survives

Party For Orphans

Postwar refugees: nowhere to go for Christmas.

Q&A: Were conscientious objectors in the Second World War given white feathers?.

Big cats

The 19th-century political and social theorist Karl Marx; co-author (with Friedrich Engels) of The Communist Manifesto (1848). (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Karl Marx (1818–83).

Second World War

Pearl Harbor: 3 historical films about the Japanese attack on the US fleet

Afternoon sunlight casting shadows on the hills, Lancashire, England UK (Getty Images)

The war on witches.

Rebellion and terrorism.

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Royal Tars of Old England

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The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land

The Beatles - John Lennon. (ITV pictures)

John Lennon: Three films

A bus makes its way down Fleet Street towards Ludgate Hill Circus and St Paul's Cathedral, London, c1888. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A history of the high street

A secret war against the Tudors.

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

What did the Baby Boomers Ever do for Us?

Second World War

The Cocos Islands Mutiny

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Galileo

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Bloodied Banners: Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield

What was the significance of the battle of Wigan Lane?

England in miniature.

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Zulu Rising

The American Civil War in 3 films

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Simon Schama to advise government on history curriculum