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Yorkshire’s top 10 historical sites as county prepares for Tour de France 2014
Q&AWhy do we say ‘Break a leg’?
Q&AWhy do we say ‘Paint the town red’?
Q&ACould you really once be hanged for impersonating a Chelsea Pensioner?
What the modern navy did for us. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
The hunt for the Tudor hitman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
James Clerk Maxwell, Israeli troops and John Dickens: 3 things that happened On This Day 13 June
Pain through the prism of war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Chloroform, Jean Harlow and the Marquess of Dorset: 3 things that happened On This Day 7 June
The LibraryD-Day: James Holland answers your questions
Voltaire, Vanessa Bell and Joan of Arc: 3 things that happened On This Day 30 May
Q&AWhere does the name ‘London’ come from?
A coal mine explosion, the birth of Nancy Witcher Langhorne, and the first Briton in space: 5 things that happened On This Day 19 May
Tracy Borman's Tudor quiz
Q&AHow old is the cat flap?
The LibraryElizabeth I’s war with England’s Catholics
The growing pains of BBC Two. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Q&AWhy did Scotland join the 1707 Union with England?
Britain in the 1970s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Q&AWhy do we call the British government ‘Whitehall’?
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