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The cruel sea: navigating the deadly journey to Australia

The unjust killing of Anne Boleyn, condemned by her husband and King

How Tolkien used old English poetry to make Middle Earth 'believable'

A dose of Rough Music, a serve of Shivaree: punishing the wayward 18th century style

Go ahead, call the cops ... General Monty wasn't very nice

Burned alive: the fate of thousands of women killed in Europe's witch-hunt mania

Charles Darwin and the evolution revolution that shook society

World War One was all Germany's fault: the academic argument that sparked a furore

As a matter of fact ... a short history of facts

True confessions of a journalist in 1970s Northern England

Britain's crushing defeat at Singapore in 1942: beginning of the end of the Empire

I've got rambling on my mind ... walking and reality in The Lord Of The Rings

William the (proto-postmodern) Conqueror

Barbara Tuchman: great writer, but was she any good as a historian?

1914-18 'the war to end war': the epic tragedy that still haunts Europe

The man who predicted the horrors of World War One ... and was ignored

Thomas Cranmer's prayer book provides a glimpse of life in a time of peril and strife

The Protestant work ethic: Is it really Protestant? Is it even ethical?

The cherished freedoms promised by Magna Carta may be under threat

Hacked to death in battle: the grim fate of King Richard III and how it came about

They did WHAT!? When Winston Churchill ordered the destruction of France’s navy

They did WHAT!? A new series on historic decisions and the reasoning behind them

What does the future hold for the working class?

The crazy final years of genius editor J F Archibald

Hard to imagine today ... when poets and poetry drove up newspaper circulation

JF Archibald's boisterous Sydney Bulletin: a carnival of mockery, ridicule and comedy

The making of one of the most popular newspapers in Australian history

The rise and fall of a genius editor (Part 3)

The enduring beauty of Choral Evensong

When History reflects the Present as much as the Past

The rise and fall of a genius editor (Part 2)

The rise and fall of a newspaper genius

A carnival of mockery: criticising Christianity in 19th Century Australia

Why the Luddites raged against the machines: they'd seen the future and it didn't include them

Poetry slam: the amazing 'duel' in verse between two great Aussie bards of the Bush

An interview with the ghost of Great War poet Wilfred Owen

What the newspaper death notices say about us

Why YouTube Bible experts Ehrman and Tabor (and the rest) owe it all to the Germans

The Fellowship of the Run

The tragedy of Rosa Frankenstein: lured into marriage by fake French Jew newspaper boss

Arthur and Martha: their hopes and dreams were shattered by the war that never ended

The courageous clergyman who exposed London's dirty, downtrodden underbelly

Eric and George made it cry and sing - but being a guitar star is much harder than it looks

All in a day’s work: journalist reports on grim spectacle of Death by Hanging

From William the Conqueror to Bill the Bean Counter: the journey of a killer king

The Great War and the brilliance of Barbara Tuchman

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