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Charlotte Mullins journeys to the North of England for the fourth instalment of our series which highlights the 50 treasure's ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what appears to be the largest Roman industrial complex ever discovered in northern Europe, hidden along the banks of the River Wear near Sunderland, England. The ...

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By late 1814 the United States looked finished with Washington burned and British armies on American soil. But American victories at Plattsburgh and Fort McHenry shattered Britain’s momentum just as ...

Dame Gillian Wagner who has died aged 98, was an expert in children’s history and the chairman, at various times, of the ...

The stories of history’s greatest empires reveal a recurring pattern: conquest without restraint, expansion without limits and an inevitable fall ...

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