Stealing Britain's history: When metal detectorists go rogue
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The town where holding fireworks over your head is a tradition
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The melancholy decline of the semicolon
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The name for Britain comes from our ancient love of tattoos
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The SAS Iranian Embassy siege, 1980 - Animated
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Part of a Spitfire which was shot down over Norway during World War II has gone on display after being restored
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The enduring mystery of Jack the Ripper
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Why Adolf Hitler was obsessed with Iceland
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Climbing the carillon bell tower in Queen's Park, Loughborough and taking a behind the scenes peek at how it all works
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Uyghur tribunal
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The secret of how Roald Amundsen beat Captain Robert Falcon Scott in race to south pole? A diet of raw penguin
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The legendary Commando raid at St. Nazaire | The greatest raid of all time
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For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage
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What each nation wanted from the scramble for Africa vs what they got from it
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Germany's plans to win WW1
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The paradox of progress
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Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain? | Map Men
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Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution?
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The Mexican American border: A tale of two colonies (Part 1/2)
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Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters
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This is neoliberalism
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The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
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Edinburgh Philosophy – Voices on Hume
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Scottish nitroglycerin and one legged stools
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Two Vikings from the same family are to be 'reunited' – DNA evidence has linked the skeleton from Oxford with another skeleton excavated in Denmark
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A battle of lies: Fake news in the Grear War
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The scandalous decision to pickle Admiral Horatio Nelson in brandy
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Is the University of Edinburgh right to rename its David Hume Tower?
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Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: The race riot of one night in June 1943
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Annotated digital archive of historic books
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Postcards from St Kilda arrive ten years later after washing up in Norway – archaeologist Ian McHardy built a waterproof replica of the mail boats a decade ago
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The village that the Luftwaffe bombed by mistake
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How to deal with a racist past: A Bristol pub leads the way
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Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge
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An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud
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Explorer, navigator, coloniser: Revisit Captain Cook’s legacy with the click of a mouse
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Archaeologists discover paintings of goddess in 3,000-year-old mummy's coffin
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500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”
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The Highland clearances explained
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Rum rations in the navy during the 18th century: Grog
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Finding faith in the gods of the Vikings – Richard didn't expect his hobby would help him find his own belief through Norse mythology
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What happened to giant flying boats? Saunders-Roe Princess story
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Board-game piece from period of first Viking raid found on Lindisfarne – small glass crown thought to be rare archaeological link to raiders
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The trial of Charles I (1649)
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How Brexit could reignite tensions at the Irish border
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On the 200th anniversary of his death, George III’s collection of more than 3,000 military maps, views and prints in the Royal Collection have been made publicly available online
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Cod war tensions with Iceland – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats in 1976
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Snowdrift at Bleath Gill
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A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
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The dognapping of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog Flush in 1846, and how she negotiated for his safe return just before secretly eloping with Robert Browning
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