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A selection of flowers with a sign saying 'Happy Mother's Day'

When is Mother's Day in 2025?
Portrait of King George IV

4 shocking scandals from the Georgian era
The US hockey team celebrate on the ice after defeating the Soviet Union at the 1980 Winter Olympics

The Miracle on Ice: The Olympic win that shocked the world
Green witch hands with long black nails

How folklore inspired Wicked's Green Witch
Rick and Marty Lagina hold shovels while standing with other members of the Oak Island team

7 mysterious locations the Oak Island treasure hunters could explore next
Vera Atkins

Vera Atkins: The secret life of a British spy
Soviet soldiers lead Auschwitz prisoners out of the gates

The liberation of Auschwitz: 80 years on
Valentina Tereshkova portrait photograph in her space suit

Valentina Tereshkova: The first woman in space
A woman making a thumbs up with one hand and a thumbs down with the other

When is Opposite Day and is it a real holiday?
Violette Szabo

The short but heroic life of Violette Szabo
Joseph Goebbels with his children and Father Christmas

A Nazi Christmas: Redefining tradition under the Third Reich

A person dressed as Mari Lwyd with a mask shaped like a horse's skeleton

Mari Lwyd: Wales’ skeletal Christmas horse
A photograph of viking-era weapons

Top 10 Viking weapons

Dr Jim Swire standing with two police officers in the background

The Lockerbie bombing: Jim Swire's pursuit of justice
Dachau Concentration Camp

6 books by Holocaust survivors you need to read
A painting that depicts horses being used in the Battle of Friedland in 1807

Galloping through time: How horses shaped history
Odette Sansom

7 inspirational female spies from World War II
Portrait of King Louis XVI of France

The world’s worst monarchs from history
Gary Sokolov in an Auschwitz bunker

Gary Sokolov: Who is the Tattooist of Auschwitz's son?
Statue of William Wallace raising his sword at the National Wallace Monument in Stirling

5 little known facts about William Wallace
The destroyed wreckage of BA Flight 149

What happened to British Airways Flight 149?
Dan Leno as pantomime dame

The colourful history of pantomime dames

Statue of Julius Caesar in Rome

What's in a name? The origins of our months' names
Earthrise, as seen from Apollo 8, 24th December 1968

History of the Space Race: The battle for the Final Frontier
Harriet Tubman

7 disabled people who changed history
Anti-nuclear bunker transformed into history museum in Tirana, Albania

The fascinating history of Albania's secret Cold War bunkers

A London policeman directs traffic during a foggy day

How the Great Smog of London killed thousands in 1952
Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice of England

Somerset vs Stewart: A turning point in British abolitionism

Inside the Roman baths in Bath, UK

Roman baths in Britain: A legacy of empire and engineering

Joseph Stalin in 1920

4 secret hideouts of Europe’s ruthless dictators

A person circling Friday 13th on a calendar

When is the next Friday the 13th and why is it unlucky?

Men of the Royal Garrison Artillery load a large artillery weapons prior to the Battle of Amiens

Amiens: The battle that turned the tide of World War I

Painting depicting William Kidd and his crew burying treasure

Forgotten Scottish pirates: Tales of treachery and treasure

The characters from 'Gunpowder Siege' standing in front of a large explosion

The Gunpowder Plot: A historian explains what really happened
Ayrton Senna sitting in his McLaren in May 1988

Ayrton Senna: The death of an icon, 30 years on
Painting depicting the signature of the armistice in the railway carriage

What happened on the Armistice of 1918?