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How did ‘good girl’ Anne Bonny and ‘bad girl’ Mary Reed end up sailing with Pirates of the Caribbean? Who was... more
Eleanor Rathbone was instrumental to the implementation of child benefit and the welfare state, why have we forgotten her? Who... more
17 murders in, what finally brought serial killers Burke and Hare to justice? How did the notorious partners in crime... more
How did Burke and Hare get into the lucrative business of murder? Why was there such a demand for fresh... more
Why did a military training exercise seem like an imminent threat of nuclear attack? Despite being minutes away from launching... more
Why was the world so close to the brink of nuclear war in November 1983? What tactics were the Americans employing... more
Why did Iva Toguri get branded America’s first female traitor, despite there being no evidence to convict her? How did her... more
How did Tokyo Rose, a woman who never existed, become one of WWII’s most well known Japanese figures? Who was Iva... more
Paranoid predictions of crime fill the newspapers - so how will the well-to-do react to the incoming crowds of the... more
The Great Exhibition is to open in May 1851 and millions of people will descend on the capital to marvel... more
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