Maritime history

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The White Ship disaster

The White Ship disaster "The most disastrous moment in British maritime history" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Oseberg ship from around AD 820 is one of the most well- preserved Viking ships ever excavated (Photo by Noe Falk Nielsen/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Viking ships: 5 lesser-known facts

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Professor Jan Bill on the HistoryExtra podcast.

At sea with the Vikings . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting by Louis Philippe Crepin depicting the battle of Trafalgar, 1805. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

The battle of Trafalgar, hour by hour: what happened and why did Britain win?

The ‘Pilgrims’ stride onto American soil in 1620 after crossing the Atlantic on the Mayflower, as shown in a 20th-century painting. The colony that they established was – initially, at least – a genuinely enlightened place, writes James Evans. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Myth of the Mayflower: the voyage that made America?

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The ‘Pilgrims’ stride onto American soil in 1620 after crossing the Atlantic on the Mayflower, as shown in a 20th-century painting by WJ Aylward (Photo by Getty Images)

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Pilgrim Fathers boarding the Mayflower

5 facts about the Mayflower

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Charles Spencer The White Ship . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A late 18th-century painting of British and French sailors going head-to-head at war

The uncommon lives of common sailors . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Pilgrim fathers arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts on board the Mayflower. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

“They decided that God must be leading them to North America”: the Puritans journey to the Mayflower . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mural of the battle of Actium from 1600

Actium, 31 BC: the beginning of the end for Mark Antony and Cleopatra

The arrival of Sir Walter Raleigh in Virginia

What happened to the lost colony of Roanoke Island?

The Suez canal

How significant was the Suez Crisis?

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Wolfson Prize winner 2020 David Abulafia. (Photo by Fran Monks)

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Tom Hanks in 'Greyhound' (2020)

Second World War

The real history that inspired WW2 film Greyhound