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A selection of historical conundrums answered by experts

What happened to Mata Hari’s head?

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BBC History Magazine

11 May, 2023

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Obituaries

Jewish teenager who volunteered for the Dutch resistance ...

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Off her own bat

Painting a local cricket match, Sherree Valentine-Daines received an invitation that changed her career and led her to become artist-in-residence at Goodwood

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Anne boleyn and henry viii had a son?

If she had given the monarch a male heir, the crowns of England and Scotland might never have been united

BBC History Magazine

Elizabeth marsh the corsair’s captive

The Barbary corsair ship appeared suddenly on the horizon, bristling with cannon. Its decks swarming with armed men, it sliced through the waves at a clip that its quarry – the British merchant ship A

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The Ear of the Beholder Huon Mallalieu (Thomas ...

The TLS

A shade never seen in nature

The platinum blonde in British history

The Week UK

Obituaries

Jewish teenager who volunteered for the Dutch resistance ...

Country Life

Off her own bat

Painting a local cricket match, Sherree Valentine-Daines received an invitation that changed her career and led her to become artist-in-residence at Goodwood

All About History

Anne boleyn and henry viii had a son?

If she had given the monarch a male heir, the crowns of England and Scotland might never have been united

BBC History Magazine

Elizabeth marsh the corsair’s captive

Country Life

Listen to the art

The Ear of the Beholder Huon Mallalieu (Thomas ...

The TLS

A shade never seen in nature

The platinum blonde in British history