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Second World War

Did the US know that Pearl Harbor would be attacked? The real history that debunks the conspiracy

Templar knight standing and a Templar knight on a horse in space

Conspiracy Do the Knights Templar still exist today?

Noor Inayat Khan in her Special Operations Executive uniform

Second World War

Noor Inayat Khan: the daring life of the British WW2 ‘spy princess’

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Conspiracy Who killed JFK?

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Harold Godwinson: the story of the last Anglo-Saxon king of England

A statue of Alice Nutter, one of the 1612 Pendle Witches. The statue is in her home village on Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. (Image by Alamy)

The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial?

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General History

Quiz Can you put these monarchs in the correct order?

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King George III

The illness and decline of King George III . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Protestors against the Sedition Act outside the White House

What was the 1918 Sedition Act?

Johannes Gutenberg examines a page from the moveable type printing press that he invented

Who invented the printing press?

A photo of a giant tortoise, with branches in the background.

General History

9 extinct animals you should know about

The future Queen Victoria, aged four

Queen Victoria’s unhappy childhood: life under the ‘Kensington System’

Ladies in Tudor costume in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. (Photo by Steve Vidler via Alamy)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Tudor fashion

A cartoon about the Tea Act shows a colonist reading the proclamation with concern

What was the 1773 Tea Act?

A portrait of George Robert Twelves Hewes

George Robert Twelves Hewes: the shoemaker who became a patriot