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A thousand years ago, the Vikings had a shock encounter with Native Americans that ended in disaster
When Old Norse explorers reached North America, they made history. But their brief, violent encounter with its indigenous ...
One of ancient Rome’s most notorious emperors murdered his own mother, and there's a dark reason why
Historian Tom Holland uncovers how politics, myth and maternal ambition collided in the scandalous reign of the Roman emperor ...
A landmark US law passed more than 50 years ago helped build the world’s most successful national women’s football team.
Journalist and author Phil Tinline explores how a fake 1960s document convinced millions – and reveals what it says about ...
Historian Helen Carr explores the disastrous 14th century, a time when famine, war, pestilence and rebellion took medieval ...
Lauren Good is the digital content producer at HistoryExtra. She joined the team in 2022 after completing an MA in Creative ...
During the Second World War, thousands of Allied pilots were deployed on a mission so dangerous, and so overshadowed by the rest of the conflict, that many referred to themselves grimly by the acronym ...
Can't decide which shows to watch or listen to this week? Here are the latest history radio and TV programmes airing in the UK that you won't want to miss ...
Home Period General History Quiz of the week: on 21 July 1960, who became the world's first elected female prime minister?
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