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What if D-Day had failed?
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What The Tattooist of Auschwitz teaches us about the Holocaust
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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'
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The Man Who Saved The World
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, by William Halsall | Wikipedia

The Mayflower and the birth of America

The most decisive battles of WW2
A photograph of Rock of Cashel in Ireland

The Most Picturesque Places in…Ireland
A photograph of Beaumaris Castle in Wales

The most picturesque places in…Wales
Anne Boleyn

The Rise and Fall of the Boleyns

What do we know in the case of the Charles Manson Killings?

The Murders of Charles Manson
Into the jaws of death' | US troops disembark from a LCVP craft onto Omaha beach 6 June 1944

The largest seaborne invasion in history: The story of D-Day
A WW1 helmet on poppies

The unbelievable wartime exploits of AD Wintle
Portrait of Prince Albert by John Partridge

The German kings and queens of England
Auschwitz

The Great Sonderkommando Revolt of 1944
A portrait head bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (called Caracalla).

The history of black Britain: Roman Africans
Three pumpkin lanterns

The History of Halloween