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What REALLY happened to women accused of witchcraft?

What is DEMONOLOGY? The medieval theory that drove centuries of witch hysteria

The WITCH next door: why ordinary people were accused of the unthinkable

Why did Hitler believe D-Day was a trick? Real story of the Normandy landings

The SECRET plan behind D-Day: history’s biggest amphibious invasion

Why did Georgian dresses cost as much as a townhouse?!

Why did Germany lose WW2? Expert explains the road to the Allies’ win

Was Robin Hood ACTUALLY real? The history of Robin Hood explained

How did the Holocaust happen? An expert’s view

Is this England’s MOST GRUESOME castle?

Why did Germany invade the Soviet Union? Laurence Rees on the early years of WW2

The SECRETS of Anne Boleyn's most treasured possession

How did WW2 begin? Laurence Rees on the road to war

INSIDE the party palace where a KING was killed

How ordinary Germans reacted to the build up to WW2 | The road to Kristallnacht

The RUDE SECRETS of the Bayeux Tapestry

Caernarfon Castle | The medieval fortress at the centre of a 20th-century controversy

Would you eat a MUMMY to cure a disease?

Why most royals HATED Buckingham Palace

Murder, kidnap and witch-hunts | DARK SECRETS of Mary, Queen of Scots' palace

How did medieval criminals seek SANCTUARY? | Historian explains law and order in the Middle Age

Could you SURVIVE as a Tudor courtier? Inside Henry VIII’s Hampton Court Palace

Inside the English-built castle that DOMINATED a Welsh revolt

SECRETS of Anne Boleyn’s childhood home revealed

Why medieval peasants were REVOLTING | What really caused the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

The REAL history behind Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and more

How DANGEROUS was childbirth in medieval times? | Medieval historian on family in the middle ages

Late-medieval religion | A brief history by Oxford professor Hannah Skoda

A Thousand Blows: the REAL history behind the new Disney+ drama

What did the Victorians do for FUN? | Ruth Goodman on 19th century entertainment