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BP Perry

 

 

Painting of Lord Mytton riding a bear

Are these the most eccentric aristocrats from British history?
A photograph of a Soviet T-34 tank

The deadliest weapons from World War II
Oppenheimer and Einstein

'Destroyer of Worlds' J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project
Wernher von Braun with the F-1 engines of Saturn V

Operation Paperclip: How Nazi scientists advanced American space travel
Britannic (right) next to Olympic (left)

Titanic's sisters: The luxurious Olympic-class ocean liners
A caricature of George IV

The 10 worst monarchs from British history
US landing crafts loaded with soldiers moving towards the Normandy beaches

7 significant shipwrecks from the D-Day landings
A shipwreck under the sea

7 biggest shipwreck mysteries from history
The Finding of the True Cross

What happened to the 'True Cross' after Jesus was crucified?
Admiral Karl Dönitz in U-Boat Wargamers

Admiral Karl Dönitz: Head of the Nazi's U-Boats and Hitler's successor
Seamen raise the White Ensign over a captured U-boat (colourised)

The Battle of the Atlantic: The longest military campaign of WWII
Stone marking the site of the Tyburn Tree

The Tyburn Tree: London's historic execution spot
Colourised image of Phineas Gage holding the iron rod

How did Phineas Gage survive an iron rod shooting through his brain?
Court sketches of Burke and Hare and a Victorian shopfront in the backgroun

Burke and Hare: The Edinburgh killers who sold their victim's bodies for dissection
A plate depicting some of the strange carvings in Royston Cave

The mystery of Royston cave: Knights Templar in Hertfordshire?
Photograph of the Roman Forum

Ancient Rome's greatest buildings
A pirate looks through a telescope on a ship

The real Captain Jack: The life of infamous pirate Calcio Jack Rackham
The Lying in State of His Late Majesty Edward VII in Westminster Hall

Royal state funerals in British history: From Mary II to George VI

Saison d'octobre by Jules Bastien-Lepage

The history of the potato: The humble vegetable that changed the world

The battle of Towton: The largest and bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil
King Lear and Cordelia by Banjamin West, 1728

'I fear I am not in my perfect mind': 7 mentally-ill monarchs from history
Christ the Redeemer

These truly colossal statues are some of the tallest in the world
Peasants enjoying a simple meal

The weirdest food in history: From fish bladder jam to beaver tails
Was Winston Churchill an effective war time leader

How effective was Churchill as a war time leader?
The Statue of Justice symbol

Weirdest laws in history
Lighthouse In Stormy Landscape

The Flannan Isle mystery: The three lighthouse keepers who vanished
An engraving by Pieter Brueghel the Elder showing three women afflicted with the plague | Wikipedia | Public Domain

The mystery of the dancing plague of 1518
Rotating wheels on a cipher machine labelled with letters of the alphabet

The Polish cryptographers who cracked the Enigma code