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Tuskegee Airmen: A WW2 Pilot's Story
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in American military history. They faced discrimination and segregation at home…
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Britain's Overlooked Hero: From the Trenches to the Blitz
Serving on the front lines of the First World War, the homefront of the Second World War and as a community leader throughout his life, George Arthur…
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The Battle of Trafalgar
On 21 October 1805, A British fleet commanded by Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson met the combined might of the French and Spanish fleets off the coast of…
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How Brutish Were Our Ancestors?
Was life for our ancient ancestors brutish and short or did they exist as noble savages free and living in harmony with nature and each other? Many o…
4 years, 5 months ago
How Alcohol Built the British Empire
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as the British Empire expanded across the globe an almost ubiquitous but often underappreciated commod…
4 years, 5 months ago
Dresden Survivor: Remembering Victor Gregg
On 12 October 2021 World War Two veteran Victor Gregg passed away peacefully in his sleep just before his 102 birthday. He was part of a unique gener…
4 years, 5 months ago
Operation Barbarossa: The Lost Diaries
Operation Barbarossa saw a clash of arms between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union of unprecedented scale and savagery, but what was it really like t…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Haitian Revolution
In 1791 the slaves of the French colony of Sant-Domingue rose up against their colonial masters and after a long and bloody struggle, defeated them t…
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The Battle of Hastings
On 14 October 1066 the armies of William, the Duke of Normandy, and the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson clashed near Hastings in one of the most fa…
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Lady Jane Grey
On a cold February morning in 1554, Lady Jane Grey was beheaded for high treason. Named as King Edward VI as his successor, Queen Jane had reigned fo…
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