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Historian Karen Jones uncovers the often overlooked role of women in building the American West – from driving wagon trains ...

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In 1940, with Nazi bombers looming over British cities and the threat of invasion ever-present, Frisch and Peierls’ findings ...

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Home Period General History Quiz of the week: which invention was patented by Isaac Singer on 12 August 1851?

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The Medici were the first family of the city state of Florence, rising from humble beginnings as merchants and bankers to become Grand Dukes of Tuscany. But how did they achieve this? And how ...