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Why is the battle of Bannockburn remembered as Scotland’s greatest victory?
Second World War
Overwhelming odds and inevitable invasions: 3 myths surrounding the Battle of Britain
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The Pax Romana: how the Romans maintained peace at the point of a sword
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Into the jaws of hell: the WW2 sinking of USS
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Second World War
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The Manhattan Project: your guide to the building of the first atomic bomb
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How Napoleon (almost) destroyed the French Revolution
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Margaret of Anjou: the ‘she-wolf’ queen who wouldn’t go quietly
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The Servile Wars: Spartacus & the rebellions that threatened the Roman Republic
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Britain’s Russian fiasco: Allied intervention in the Russian civil war
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