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Was Henry III the worst king in medieval history? Our expert uncovers one of England's most disastrous reigns
A bankrupt treasury, disastrous foreign policy and a civil war: this is the story of how Henry III lost control of his own ...
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Britain’s worst nuclear disaster: the Windscale fire of 1957
When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.
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The shockingly simple question historian Tom Holland would ask Julius Caesar
Given the chance to interrogate one of history’s most famous figures, what would you ask? Speaking on the HistoryExtra ...
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Why reporting a murder in medieval England could destroy your life
Witnessing a crime was one thing for medieval townspeople, but reporting it was another matter entirely… ...
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Aethelred: why was the Anglo-Saxon king called ‘the Unready’?
Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...
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The strange story of the Nazi obsession with this legendary artefact still isn't over
The Nazis loved the Bayeux Tapestry. They loved it so much that they tried (and failed) to steal it away to Germany at the ...
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How Tibbles the cat single-handedly caused a Victorian-era extinction
How did one cat take out an entire species of bird in the 19th century? Dr Ross Barnett explains more about how human ...