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Women's bodies: an unreliable history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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William Tell: was the legendary Swiss hero a real person?

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Elizabethan London: a multicultural melting pot. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A history of the BibleWho wrote it and when?

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Why did Hitler choose the swastika as a Nazi symbol?

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Why Schindler’s List remains relevant decades on

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Who owns Greenland? Why the island's history is more complicated than you think

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The best historical movies of all time

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ConspiracyWere the pyramids built by aliens?

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How pigs caused a stink in medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Jimmy Carter: a moral man but a diffident president

History's Greatest Scandals : The Victorians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Nazino was Stalin’s worst labour gulag. Its inmates knew it by another name: Cannibal Island

Secret forceps & pig bladders: medical objects through time. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The outrageous heretical legend of Pope Joan, history’s only female pope

How Roman roads transformed Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hotel Lux: the guesthouse of world revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Scandals: The Victorians | 2. 'Little pills of sugared death’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Susan B Anthony: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Scandals: The Victorians | 1. The mother of all sex scandals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.