The forgotten Roman roads
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Pigeons in the Arctic: Part III: Sir John Ross’s 1850-51 search for the lost Franklin Bay expedition
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The Canterbury Tales, or, how technology changes the way we speak
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Yorkshire crafts: Drystone wallers
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Edinburgh's Beltane Fire Festival, rooted in ancient Gaelic traditions, heralds the beginning of summer and celebrates the cycles of nature. The vibrant event now draws over 8,000 attendees each year.
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Medieval historian and game developer, Jason Kingsley CBE, reacts to Manor Lords
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How the Berlin Wall worked
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Britain’s vast network of abandoned nuclear bunkers | Cold War UK
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What happened when you visited a medieval inn?
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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Packages seized by the Royal Navy from a Faroese cargo ship bound for Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars opened – previously hidden away in the National Archives
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The Greenwich meridian's forgotten rival
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Welcome to Sealand, the world's smallest state
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If we shoot a 140lb draw weight English longbow from a five story medieval tower, how much further will the arrows go?
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The first US Army Christmas: George Washington and the Hessians
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WWII rescue buoys - Secret 'floating hotels' of the English Channel
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Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge
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How one man rewrote one thousand years of history
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Sinking the Blücher: How an outdated fort stopped the WWII Invasion of Norway
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Journey to EPCOT Center: A symphonic history
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Monica de Wichfeld awarded Blue plaque honour in Derrylin, Northern Ireland – was a leading member of the Danish resistance against Nazi occupation in World War II
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Logo rewind: Discovering the trademarks of medieval Norwich
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Wikipedia’s king who doesn’t exist
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Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway
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A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed
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Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure: dating back half a million years and predating the evolution of our own species, Homo sapiens
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Norway remembers its wartime debt to Dumfries – special relationship being marked with the unveiling of a one-and-a-half tonne stone of friendship
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The unmaking of India: How the British impoverished the world’s richest country
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Why British cities make no sense | Map Men
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Long barrows are Neolithic constructions that might have been churches, or graveyards, or landmarks. And some are being built again: for the first time in recorded history.
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Historian finds evidence for use of y'all in London from 1600s
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What's the difference between medieval inns, taverns, and alehouses?
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A very interesting video on the phonetics of English regional accents, spoken by a polyglot in the accents
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A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast: Patrick Gray on Shakespeare
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The history behind Orkney's vote to ‘join Norway’
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Illustrations of madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
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The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped
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The advent of sunglasses
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Cold War British RMP video shown to travellers before driving from West Germany to West Berlin through the Soviet East German corridor
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The Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA)
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Democracy is the solution to vetocracy
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No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
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The history of the boycott: How one Englishman’s name has ended up in every dictionary since 1888
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True kilts: Debunking the myths about highlanders and clan tartans
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The city that fell off a cliff
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How codebreakers decrypted a trove of long-lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots
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Church of England considers gender neutral pronouns for God
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Crippling Hitler's navy – the battle that knocked out 50% of the Kriegsmarine's destroyers in Norway
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I was wrong (and so was everyone)
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Darwin's Barometer
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