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During WW2, Josephine Baker, the world’s richest and most glamorous entertainer, was an Allied spy in Occupied France. This is the story of her heroic personal resistance to Nazi Germany.
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BBC historian Janina Ramirez has uncovered countless influential women’s names struck out of historical records, with the word ‘FEMINA’ annotated beside them. Male gatekeepers of ...
Sarah Gristwood celebrates the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II and how her enduring popularity was tantamount to her many supporters. The twists and turns of her life follow her teenage years during t...
An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Rob...
How did the abolitionist movement interact with women’s entry into the field of photography? What does the medium have to do with menstrual taboos? Is there even such a thing as a ‘femi...
The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II – mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots.
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Sandcastles, donkeys, piers and sticks of rock. Beach huts, paddle steamers, promenade shelters and ice cream cones. Our modern seaside is the sum of its parts and all those parts have their histor...
Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek h...
Spitfire: A remarkable aircraft flown by very brave men. This is their story.
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A blockbuster adventure about life, death and obsession in the Amazon
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The untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East
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The story of Britain’s colourful maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth.
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Castles of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
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The story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors’ lives and became a national hero.
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Charles Lamb fought and survived a war flying the obsolete and inelegant Fleet Air Arm bi-plane, the 90-knot Fairey Swordfish, popularly known as the Stringbag. The Stringbag was a deadly weapon in...