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The original Gawain and the Green Knight manuscript and a green sword

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The quintessential chivalric romance
Two ghostly groups of Viking Gods in the morning haze, ready for battle, sky with storm clouds and bright sun

Ásgard and the nine worlds of Norse mythology
Hamilton White (pictured left) and Carl Cookson (pictured right)

Lost Relic Hunters S2: Episodes
A dummy tank

Dummy tanks and fake radio broadcasts: WW2's biggest deception campaigns
Punishment of Ixion

Who were the major Roman gods and goddesses?
The UnXplained with William Shatner

William Shatner Interview: 'You become unglued because of the mysteries'
The Shambles

5 historic British holiday destinations
A photograph of cannon windows on old galleon ship

What if the Spanish Armada had succeeded?
Adam Jenkins

60 Seconds of Skill: Q&A with archery instructor Adam Jenkins
'Freyja and the Necklace' by James Doyle Penrose, 1890

The most powerful goddesses in Norse mythology
Sir Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake: Hero or Villain?
Spoon carving

60 Seconds of Skill: Q&A with spoon carver Jojo Wood

Alida Lopes and her classmates

The moving true story of a Jewish girl and her friends in occupied Amsterdam
Bats

Project X-ray: America's secret WW2 plan to drop bat bombs on Japan
Black and white picture of a hangman’s gallows with a noose.

Hang 'em High: 7 of history's most famous executioners
The Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada: 5 facts about Tudor England's biggest naval victory
Arthur Ashe

Arthur Ashe: The tennis star who broke boundaries on and off the court
Leather worker Hamish Lamley

60 Seconds of Skill: Q&A with leather worker Hamish Lamley
Megan Hune

'It'd be very easy to just vanish': Megan Hine on hunting for the lost city of Akakor
Wars of the Roses

A brief history of the Wars of the Roses
French flags in front of the Eiffel Tower

Is July the busiest month for declaring independence?
KIng William

Surprising facts about England's lesser-known kings and queens
The Council of Nicaea

The Council of Nicaea: Resolving the crisis in early Christianity

The legendary adventures of Thor in Norse mythology
Dr Butcher and Mr Humble

The unbelievable story of world’s first successful head transplant

A digitally colourised photograph of Alan Turing

6 influential LGBTQ+ figures from British history 
German general Heinz Guderian (centre), commander of Panzer Group 2, on 20 August 1941

What if Operation Barbarossa had never happened?
Miraculous Heavenly Light - Blue sky, fluffy clouds and a beautiful warm orange yellow sun beaming down radiating depicting a holy entity

The Angel of Mons and other supernatural stories from WWI
Battle of tomatoes. La Tomatina festival where people are fighting with tomatoes at street

Weird and wonderful traditions to welcome the summer

A digitally colourised photograph of Julian Eltinge

A brief but glamorous history of drag
A photograph of a small boat in a dark sea

'Bad women are great characters to write': Philippa Gregory on her new novel

Four fascinating facts about Curse of Oak Island's Gary Drayton
Burning at the stake, one of the most a brutal forms of capital punishment, has a long history as punishment for crimes such as treason, heresy, and witchcraft in Europe.

That takes guts: 7 gory execution methods from Tudor England

Magna Carta Libertatum, is an eight-hundred year-old English legal charter that required King John of England to proclaim certain rights and accept that his will could be bound by the law.

Three ways Magna Carta changed the world
The D-Day Puzzles

The unsolved mystery of the D-day puzzles
The Kensington Runestone

The Kensington Runestone: Fascinating find or fake news?