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A thousand years ago, the Vikings had a shock encounter with Native Americans that ended in disaster
When Old Norse explorers reached North America, they made history. But their brief, violent encounter with its indigenous ...
A landmark US law passed more than 50 years ago helped build the world’s most successful national women’s football team.
Journalist and author Phil Tinline explores how a fake 1960s document convinced millions – and reveals what it says about ...
One of ancient Rome’s most notorious emperors murdered his own mother, and there's a dark reason why
Historian Tom Holland uncovers how politics, myth and maternal ambition collided in the scandalous reign of the Roman emperor ...
Historian Helen Carr explores the disastrous 14th century, a time when famine, war, pestilence and rebellion took medieval ...
Journalist Caroline Alexander uncovers the stories of those who flew ‘the Hump’ – a little-known Allied supply mission that ...
Lauren Good is the digital content producer at HistoryExtra. She joined the team in 2022 after completing an MA in Creative ...
From the US assassination of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani to the ongoing case of the jailed mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Iran has scarcely been out of the headlines in recent months. But how ...
Around 1pm on 8 June 1924, George Mallory, one of the era’s leading climbers, and his young companion Andrew Irvine, were spotted as tiny black specks clinging to Everest’s towering Northeast Ridge, ...
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