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A wild history of partying

Yuri Gagarin: life of the week

How Christianity conquered the Roman empire

The Odyssey’s forgotten epilogue

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Inside the Maya storyworld

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The Fifth Crusade: triumph, disaster and the battle for Egypt

Is the Odyssey myth or memory?

Renaissance Italy's firearm revolution

How blood banks saved Britain in WW2

Pericles: life of the week

Did Churchill save the monarchy?

Gods and monsters: the hidden stories of the Odyssey

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The Bayeux Tapestry's secret code of tyranny and injustice

How to survive a day in the 14th century

Bess of Hardwick: life of the week

Alliance and acrimony: a history of Jewish-Muslim relations

Who wrote the Odyssey?

1966: The World Cup that changed a nation

How Rome really conquered Britain

Edward Colston: life of the week

Was Elizabeth Báthory really a serial killer?

What did the American Revolution really achieve?

The captain's wife who took command

What could you eat in Georgian London?

Pablo Picasso: life of the week

When football became a weapon of the Cold War

How Britain lost America

A history of the US in 100 unexpected objects

An A-Z history of the English alphabet

Abigail Adams: life of the week

The astonishing laws of medieval Wales

Inside the Declaration of Independence

Cannibalism, heartbreak and Madame Guillotine: George Forster's extraordinary life

Charlotte Brontë's life through clothes

Emma Goldman: life of the week

Stealing the V2 rocket: Britain’s secret WW2 intelligence coup

The road to the American Revolutionary War

The protestant missionaries that didn't change the world

Strangers and aliens in Tudor England

Alexander the Great: life of the week

What myths do we tell about royal women?

Cleopatra’s death – and cultural afterlife

Masters of disinformation: how British spies played dirty in the Cold War

Churchill's toughest decision

Henry Paget: life of the week

The hidden history of female sexual pleasure

Why Cleopatra was more than a bewitching beauty

Better than Bridgerton: the real Georgian masquerade

Weimar's descent from democracy to barbarism

Alan Turing: life of the week

The self-made Marilyn Monroe

Cleopatra’s bloody rise to power

Gullible Georgians: hoaxes in the Enlightenment period

Spies, radicals and deportees: one hotel in wartime Paris

Timur: life of the week

How Orkney became the centre of Viking Age violence

Young Cleopatra: the making of a queen

A history of Christian sacrifice

Redefining historical mothers

Lady Jane Grey: life of the week

The peacemakers of WW2

The long shadow of the Black Death

The secret plot to end Scottish independence

How did communism conquer China?

Olaf Tryggvason: life of the week

The death of Adolf Hitler

Fear and faith: coping with the Black Death

Attenborough: a life on screen

A worker's eye-view of ancient Rome

Niccolò Machiavelli: life of the week

How to pull off a Georgian dinner party