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In the aftermath of Boudicca’s uprising, the Romans felt they could not withdraw from the British Is
“Two cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies perished, and the island
Viewed as an idiot by those around him, Claudius felt the need to prove himself. In the century sinc
Julius Caesar saw the Britons as brutal savages. Yet the Romans romanticised their lack of civilisat
After lying in state in an open casket, Evita’s corpse is taken down to a secret laboratory in the b
The workaholic mother of a nation, Evita’s health deteriorates and she faints at a public event. A s
“There is only one man who can lead any worker’s regime.”Together, Eva and Colonel Perón built a pol
An admirer of Hitler and Mussolini, Colonel Perón rose through the ranks during the 1943 military co
“Don’t cry for me Argentina, the truth is I never left you.” Few political figures have been both ha
It’s August 1944: the Liberation of Paris is underway, and France appears to slowly be extricating h
“I like an Englishman to look like an Englishman, and beards are foreign and breed vermin. Also depe
What did Marcus Aurelius, Jesus, and Ragnar Lothbrok all have in common? Apart from their notorious
St Crispin’s day, 1415: Henry V stands victorious, after a tremendous defeat of the French forces at
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers”.The Battle of Agincourt in 1415 endures as perhaps the m
On the 11th of August 1415, King Henry V of England - an austere, pious, thoughtful and terrifying w
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends. Once more, we'll close the wall up with our English dead [
The year is 1403, and the Usurper King, Henry IV, faces a seemingly insurmountable challenge to his
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown…”Henry IV has been portrayed as both a shadowy, obscure fig
The unexpected evolution of Italian food can serve as a tantalising doorway into some of the greates
In Sussex, in 1912, men quarrying in a gravel pit near Piltdown village turned up a human skull. Acc
