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Things you didn't know

Soldiers standing on the western front during WW2
Second World War

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Second World War

The acclaimed English author Charles Dickens. (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)
Victorian

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Charles Dickens and his family home

A portrait of Elizabeth Woodville, queen of Edward IV. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
Medieval

8 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Woodvilles

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Between 1613 and 1754, a legal loophole meant that on-the-spot marriages could be carried out in an area surrounding the Fleet Debtors’ Prison known as the ‘Liberties of the Fleet’. (Photo by Getty Images)
General History

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of London

Battle of Verdun. French trench on the front lines, 1916. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)
First World War

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Verdun

Roman mosaic of a dog, bearing the legend 'Cave Canem' underneath, from Pompeii, from Naples National Museum's collection, 1st century. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)
Roman

6 things you (probably) didn’t know about animals in ancient Rome

English crime writer Agatha Christie and her daughter, Rosalind, are featured in a newspaper article reporting the mysterious disappearance of the novelist, 1926. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Period

8 weird things that have happened during the festive season through history

Photograph of the Wounded British Soldiers at the Battle of the Somme. Dated 1916. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
First World War

8 things you (probably) didn’t know about the battle of the Somme

The Spanish Armada defeated in the English Channel in July 1588, by Hendrick Cornelis Vroom, c1600. (Picture by DEA PICTURE LIBRARY/Getty Images)
Elizabethan

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Spanish Armada

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Catholics massacre Protestants in Ulster in a contemporary illustration. However, Catholics were also the victims of mass killings in 1641. (© Getty)
Stuart

10 great misconceptions of the Civil War

A counting of goats and rams in cuneiform script, ancient Ngirsu, Iraq, 2360 BC. (DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)
Ancient Egypt

Cuneiform: 6 things you (probably) didn’t know about the world’s oldest writing system

Chastity belt decorated with a flower design and a heart pierced with arrows. (SSPL/Getty Images)
General History

13 weird historical facts

Austrian physicist Lise Meitner
20th Century

6 women in science history you (probably) didn’t know about

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Georgian

5 facts you (probably) didn’t know about Nelson’s navy

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Victorian

Festive QI facts: 8 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of Christmas

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