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How did Spanish Flu get its name? When did our ancestors start using toilet paper? Why did the famous Crystal Palace burn down? And where was the WW1 Armistice signed? Here, your most burning questions about history are answered by historians and experts…
Q&AWhy was Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, known as the Kingmaker?
Q&ADid George Washington have wooden teeth?
Q&ADid Marie Antoinette really say “let them eat cake”?
Q&AWho was Madame Tussaud’s first waxwork?
Q&AWhat was the Thin Red Line?
Q&AWhat are the origins of the Christmas pantomime?
Q&AWhat’s the oldest statue in London?
Q&ADid Abraham Lincoln’s beard win him the election?
Q&AWho was St Swithin?
Second World WarvideoFrom Winston Churchill to the Bengal famine: are we in denial about our role in WW2?
TudorvideoWhat did Elizabeth I think of her mother, Anne Boleyn? Historian Tracy Borman explains
Q&AWhat was a drunkard’s cloak used for?
Q&AWhere do the names for days of the week come from?
Q&AWhen did Christianity first arrive in Britain?
Q&AWhat is the oldest church in England?
Q&AWhy was the 1918-19 pandemic known as Spanish Flu?
Q&AHas there always been panic buying? And when have people panic shopped through history?
When was toilet paper invented and what did people use before?
Has there ever been a married Pope?
Where was the Armistice signed?
Q&AWho do we say 'put a sock in it'?
Q&A: What happened to the assassins who killed Thomas Becket?
Q&AWhy are there 13 items in a Baker's Dozen?
Q&AWho invented the tutu?
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