History

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Grace Darling, the Lighthouse Heroine

2 years ago Robin

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Stamford bull run: a custom demised after 700 years of cruelty

2 years ago Robin

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The true story of Lord Lucan, the British aristocrat who killed his maid and disappeared forever

2 years ago Robin

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The tragedy of Aberfan: what happened that fateful October 21, 1966

2 years ago Robin

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The sad history of London’s Speakers’ Corner

2 years ago Robin

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Edith Cavell: the heroine nurse of England

2 years ago Robin

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Lepanto: the battle that saved Europe

2 years ago Robin

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Phet and Ploy: the most expensive cat wedding in the world!

2 years ago Robin

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The days that vanished and the switch to the Gregorian Calendar

2 years ago Robin

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September 27, 1825: the first time in history that a steam locomotive carry passengers on a public railway

2 years ago Robin

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What was the first country to grant women the vote?

3 years ago Nathan

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Tomás de Torquemada: the mad monk burns 2,000 at the stake

3 years ago Robin

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The boy who made one of the most stunning archaeological discoveries of all time…

3 years ago Robin

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The ghosts of Cold Harbor battlefield – Mechanicsville, Virginia

3 years ago Leo S

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When London burned: 1666’s Great Fire

3 years ago Robin

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Battle of Cajamarca: how 200 conquistadors conquered an empire of 10 million

3 years ago Robin

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Krakatoa: the story of the world’s mightiest explosion

3 years ago Nathan

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Buried at 2,000 meters high: the inaccessible sarcophagi of Karajia in Peru

3 years ago Adam

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#August 14, 1936: America’s Last Public Hanging

3 years ago Robin

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The incredible story of the balloon expedition to the North Pole

3 years ago Robin

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The incredible story of the woman who fell 75 storeys in a lift (and survived)

3 years ago Robin

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Light and air for everybody: the window tax imposed on English citizens in 1696

3 years ago Leo S

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Robert the Bruce: the never-say-die king (and the spider)

3 years ago Robin

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The colonial era ghosts that still haunt the streets of Yorktown, the landmark village of the American Revolution

3 years ago Leo S

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Louis Réard and the birth of the Bikini

3 years ago Robin

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The Battle of the Somme: the bloodiest day in British military history

3 years ago Robin

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Tunguska Event: the mystery that puzzled scientists for almost 100 years

3 years ago Robin

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The mysterious case of dance mania that broke out in Medieval Europe

3 years ago Adam

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Henry Hudson and the deadly quest for the the Northern Passage

3 years ago Robin

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Virginia Dare, the white doe and the lost colony – between history and legend

3 years ago Leo S

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“Without weapons, violence or hate”: France’s biggest-ever bank robbery

3 years ago Robin

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The London’s plague pits map that shows where the Black Death victims got buried

3 years ago Leo S

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Why an American bought the London Bridge

3 years ago Leo S

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D-Day: the day that changed Europe’s history

3 years ago Robin

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#June 4, 1940: Operation Dynamo at Dunkirk ends

3 years ago Robin

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Voltaire: writer, philosopher and…..rebel

3 years ago Robin

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“The Death Camp” and the forgotten story of Germany’s first holocaust

3 years ago Anya016

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Why European plague doctors wore those strange beaked masks?

3 years ago randomcollabs

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How Australia was born

3 years ago Nathan

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#May 9, 1971: Irish adventurer “Captain Blood” steals crown jewels

3 years ago Robin

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Malleus Maleficarum: the sacred text used to identify witches

3 years ago Danijel90

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#May 6, 1994: English Channel tunnel opens

3 years ago Robin