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Q&AWhy do we say ‘Break a leg’?

My favourite place: Janina Ramirez

Q&AD-Day: How did a weather forecast change the fate of the war?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How to succeed in Ancient Rome. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

The LibraryD-Day: James Holland answers your questions

My history hero: Jules Verne (1828–1905). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryThe spies who hunted Mussolini. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Seville, 1670. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Books interview with Ian Morris: "War can be a productive force in that it produces larger, more peaceful societies". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWere the pagan English gods the same as the Viking gods?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General ancient history

Q&AWhy did physicians ‘bleed’ their patients?

Q&AWhat happened to the last emperor of Rome?

The LibraryBritain and France: Empires under fire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWhat does it mean to 'cross the Rubicon'?

The long shadow of Adolf Hitler. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AHow did World War I change women’s lives?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Amsterdam, 1648. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWhy are bishops called Pontiffs?

First World War

Q&AWhat was the only major naval battle in the First World War?

Q&AHow did the world go to war in 1914?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Books interview with Michael Broers: "You don't have to make up myths about Napoleon's youth – just look at his letters to see evidence that he was a great leader". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

When Hitler’s perfect woman came to call. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWho was the bravest man at Waterloo?

Q&AWho paid for the arrows in the Battle of Agincourt?

Q&AWhat were hussar regiments?

Back to the Stone Age: would you survive?

“Britain should have stayed out of the First World War” says Niall Ferguson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Books interview with Larry Siedentop: "What is distinctive about the west is that the organising social role is no longer the patriarchal family and instead the individual". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why Britain was right to go to war in 1914. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWhat was the Battle of the Herrings?

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