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The Complicated Legacy of F W de Klerk
The result of his complicated legacy, the death of South Africa's last apartheid president, F W de Klerk, on November 11 2021 generated a flood of di…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Rise of the Praetorian Guard
From Gladiator to Rome Total War to Star Wars, today the Praetorians are one of the most distinctive military units of Imperial Rome. It was their jo…
4 years, 3 months ago
The British Spy who Saved Jews from Hitler
Thomas Kendrick was at the very centre of British Intelligence operations throughout the first half of the twentieth century. He combined a public fa…
4 years, 3 months ago
From the Punjab to the Western Front
Over a million Indian soldiers served during the First World War, but many of the records of the soldiers who fought valiantly for the Allied cause h…
4 years, 3 months ago
The British Monarchy
The British Monarchy is a thread that has run throughout the history of Britain but over the centuries it has been a constantly evolving institution.…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Assassination of JFK: Explained
Everyone who was alive at the time remembers the day President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas on the 22 November 1963. On this annive…
4 years, 3 months ago
Greg Jenner: Ask a Historian
When and why did we start keeping hamsters as pets? When was sign language first used in the UK? If you were planning a bank heist, which historical …
4 years, 4 months ago
Searching for the Lost of World War One
At the end of the World War One, around one million citizens of the British Empire had been lost, and the whereabouts of about half of these was unkn…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Magic Circle & Hoaxes in History
Hoaxes and magic were widespread in 18th century Britain. From a woman who claimed to birth rabbits, to a man who said he’d climb into a bottle in fr…
4 years, 4 months ago
When the World's Armies Came to Salisbury Plain
During World War One, Britain and its empire mobilised soldiers on a hitherto unprecedented scale. That required a huge logistical effort to feed, eq…
4 years, 4 months ago