Has history been unfair to Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch? Was she weak and easily led, or one of Britain’s most determined and underestimated monarchs? In this episode of our Restoration podcast ...
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The Amber Room was once called the 8th wonder of the world. A dazzling chamber completely adorned with Amber Panels was the ...
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The search for the lost samurai blade | Myth Hunters

The Honjo Masamune is perhaps the greatest Japanese sword ever made. Forged in the 13th century by the great swordsmith Masamune it became the ceremonial sword of the ruling Tokugawa shoguns for 250 ...
Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb is Senior Lecturer and Convenor for History at New College of the Humanities, London, and also holds a post as Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia.
It's no secret that in WW2, Hitler's Nazis looted the world of valuable art and treasures. But despite ransacking entire ...
From early attempts to summit Everest by pioneers like George Mallory and Andrew Irvine to the famous 1953 ascent by Edmund ...