Christmas Carols: A Musical History
Traditionally sung at Christmas itself or during the surrounding Christmas holiday season, it is thought that carols existed to keep up people’s spiri...
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Just as Scrooge wandered London's streets on a cold Christmas night, Dan Snow follows the ghosts of Charles Dickens' past to discover the city that in...
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Thanks largely to his feature in the Gospel of Matthew, King Herod ‘the Great’ of Judaea is one of the infamous figures from the whole of history. So ...
The Parthenon Marbles
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The Battle of Agincourt Explained
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The Unlikely Fate of the Wright Brothers
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Black Tudors: England's Other Countrymen
Our image of the Tudor era remains overwhelmingly white. But the black presence in England was much greater than has previously been recognised, and T...
Uncovered: South America's Biggest Slave Uprising
On February 27 1763, thousands of enslaved people in the Dutch colony of Berbice—in present-day Guyana—launched a huge uprising against their oppresso...
Inside Downing Street with Gavin Barwell
British politician Gavin Barwell served as Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May from June 2017 to July 2019, one of the most turbulent periods...