The Berkshire mystery: Where exactly is "Berk"?
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Four strange places to see London’s Roman wall
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This is not a ruined cottage | The Druridge Bay ruin
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The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet
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Sarah Mullally named the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in history of Church of England
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Ancient Historian reviews Monty Python's Life of Brian | Deep Dives
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The British empire’s role in ending slavery worldwide
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Was this English queen a 'predatory' collector of beautiful things?
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Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark
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Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?
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Viking longship to sail through Tower Bridge – the Saga Farmann departed Tønsberg in Norway and has been sailing around Europe (with a few land transport gaps)
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The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was unsolved - until now
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The cure for scurvy, forgotten
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ITA was a 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of UK children unable to spell
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The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation
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In the mid-20th century, Britain and Iceland went to war. Sort of. All over the precious resource of cod.
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Was there a Norwegian island of New Zealand? Stewart Island was home to a significant proportion of Norwegian settlers and whalers.
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Why did the UK government nationalise this pub?
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Do not try this at home: Medieval medicine under the spotlight in major new project
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The maid who restored Charles II
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The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be
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