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WW2 British Command Centres
'The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer' a painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme depicts

Valentine's Day: A bloody love story
Welcome to Stephen's garage.

Your Answers to Stephen Taylor’s Unidentified Objects
A photograph of Stalingrad after the first months of the German attack in November 1942, after two months of battle

What if Stalingrad had fallen?
The Flag of the United States and Viking tools

Vikings, Living in America

Image | Fire in Rome by Hubert Robert.

Was Nero Responsible for the Great Fire of Rome?
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Was Emily Brontë a feminist?
We are giving away 10 limited edition Tin Amp portable tin speakers

WW2 Treasure Hunters competition
A mock-up of Jack the Ripper alongside the a HH Holmes mugshot, but were they the same person?

Was HH Holmes Really Jack the Ripper?

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Was the destruction of Dresden an Allied war crime?
A Supermarine Spitfire doing a manoeuvre

WW2's greatest air battles
An American flag on a landing craft

What if D-Day had failed?
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What The Tattooist of Auschwitz teaches us about the Holocaust
A shadow silhouette of a bat in a light beam

Why Did Batman and Superman Go Mainstream?

Why Does Everyone Hate the English : Episodes
The Varangian Guards, an illumination from the Skylitzis Chronicle

Who were the Varangian Guard?
Sitting Bull as depicted in Robert Redford's The West

Who Was Sitting Bull?

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Who was HH Holmes?
Martin Luther King

Why were so many American political figures assassinated in the 1960s?
Crazy Horse as depicted in Robert Redford's American West

Who Was Crazy Horse?

Win a copy of 'Lancaster' by John Nichol
A close-up of the front of the US 10-dollar bill bearing the portrait of Alexander Hamilton

Who was Alexander Hamilton?
This Autumn HISTORY digs a little deeper into WW2 with World War True, featuring Madness frontman Suggs (pictured).

World War True: A Season of WW2 Shows
A photograph of an eruption of the Anak Krakatau volcanoes in Indonesia

What Would Happen if a Supervolcano Erupted?

Win a Copy of The Spy by Andrew Gross
The Vikings are coming...

Where the Vikings Left their Mark

Which Barbarian Are You?

Win a copy of Renia's Diary, a new classic in Holocaust literature
A photograph of an old US bank and saloon

Who features in Robert Redford's The West?
A photograph of The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on the 9th August 1945

Why Did Japan Really Surrender in WW2?
A stock image of Santa Claus with a blurry warped background

How psychedelics may have inspired the story of Santa

The Real Vikings: Clive Standen Interview
Emmeline Pankhurst founded the WSPU in 1903

The lives of the Suffragettes
The factory wall in Crewe

The making of 'This Wall is Crewe', winner of 'HISTORY's short filmmaker of the year 2018'
A graphic showing planet Earth and the nuclear symbol

The Man Who Saved The World
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, by William Halsall | Wikipedia

The Mayflower and the birth of America