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The LibraryArdennes 1944: Hitler's last gamble. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AHow did a crow help Rome defeat Carthage?

The dangerous streets of ancient Rome. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Spanish Armada: all at sea. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Books interview with Steven Weinberg: "The history of science can prevent us from making the mistakes of the past". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite place: Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Dressed for war: fashions of the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dormice, ostrich meat and fresh fish: the surprising foods eaten in ancient Rome. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The duchy of Aquitaine: an English ‘colony’ in deepest France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite place: Dominic Sandbrook

My favourite place: Languedoc, France

"How I fell captive to the Germans": the experience of First World War PoWs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Christianity’s rocky relationship with sex. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Living through the Crusades: 3 poems and songs that reveal how medieval people felt about the holy war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General Early Modern

Q&AWho invented champagne?

Q&AWhy do we say ‘turn a blind eye’?

My favourite place: Sean McGlynn

Q&AWhy do we say ‘resting on your laurels’?

My favourite place: Miles Russell

Why did Hippocrates eat earwax?

What did people eat in Ancient Rome?

1945: The race for Berlin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite place: Sicily

Stalin’s early years and Mein Kampf. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The year when fear of Napoleon stalked the land. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history heroPliny the Elder (AD 23–79). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

First World War

In WW1, what did the Allies want to achieve?

Q&AWhy were people of noble birth said to be ‘blue blooded’?

In focus: Aesop and his fables

The battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s final gamble. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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