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Alice Loxton

Eighteen-year-olds who changed history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How games changed history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastHidden labs, sex gardens & torture attics: secrets of British royal palaces. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lines on a map: borders that shaped world history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tartan: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

“People have achieved all kinds of crazy things at the age of 18” | Alice Loxton on the teens who've changed British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sun gods and goddesses16 solar deities from world history

Quiz: what year is it?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Our long obsession with the end of the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Older man in a Sherlock Holmes type matching outfit and hat with a hand and a magnifying glass up to his face with a large pipe hanging out of his mouth.

QuizCan you find the odd one out?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A baby sits on a toilet and pulls toilet paper from a roll

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A brief history of the toilet: wiping, washing – plus, who invented the flush?

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Our 2024 ‘30 under 30’ list

Video podcastWelsh mythology: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Spanish Inquisition: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History's greatest cities: Delhi. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Montage of famous assassinations, including Gandhi and JFK.

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50 assassinations that changed the world

Video podcastBritish Redcoats: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History's greatest cities: Cape Town. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shipwrecked: the 18th-century looters who endured five months of hell. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History's greatest citiesCairo. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Norse god Wotan surrounded by fire.

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Fire gods and goddesses: 14 fire deities from world history

Spanish republican propaganda referring to the term 'fifth column'

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Q&AWhere does the term ‘fifth column’ come from?

Chocolate history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History's greatest cities: Québec City. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Work-life balance: how our ancestors fought for free time. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History's greatest cities: Mexico City. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael uses a medieval tool while undertaking further work at Prebendal Manor.

My life in historyHistoric gardener. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History's greatest cities: Tokyo. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastHow has fear shaped history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Death and mourning in Britain: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.