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William Bligh is remembered today as the sadistic martinet who provoked the mutiny on the Bounty. But there was another Bligh: a brilliant navigator,...
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On the evening of 29th December 1940 the German Luftwaffe attacked London with devastating results. In a night that Hitler hoped would create a...
Most people believe Boudica was a woman who fought for justice and independence over the brutal Romans. But is the story really true? Boudica...
On February 7th 1649 Parliament voted to abolish the monarchy. A few days earlier King Charles had gone to the scaffold. The Prince of...
The English have been burning effigies on 5 November to mark Guy Fawkes Day for almost 400 years. But, who was Guy Fawkes and...
William Bligh is remembered today as the sadistic martinet who provoked the mutiny on the Bounty. But there was another Bligh: a brilliant navigator,...
The popular image of Spartacus seems like a real-life version of David and Goliath. In the first century BC, a slave named Spartacus threatened...
Robert Leroy Parker was a train robber and outlaw who went by the name of “Butch Cassidy”. He was born in 1866 after his...
William Powell Lear, the man behind LearJet, was also the inventor of the 8-track cartridge tape system. During the early 1960s, a number of...
The 1930s saw the birth of modern Grand Prix motor racing. It was an era absolutely dominated by Germany, as Hitler used the sport...
How It Started: Emerging from Harlem’s Latin poor via the gay subculture of Greenwich Village, disco was the musical style that became a dance...