Going west

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One man’s chance discovery would put California firmly on the map – and change the

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History Revealed Magazine

27 October 2022

Family Tree

Perfect pictures for your family history

I use a lot of images in my blogs, published articles and presentations. Some are photos of people. Many are diagrams, graphs or copies of documents from parish registers, books and articles or websit

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Yesterday remembered

One day late in 1939, a small article appeared in our daily newspaper. It was submitted by the government and was an appeal for British women to knit socks for men in the army, which was unable to obt

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Zooquest

Shaka the african savannah elephant is standing in the middle of an expansive field, staring intently at us. His ears are forward, his face is alert and he doesn’t appear stressed or, can we say, unha

BBC History Magazine

25 things we’ve learned over the past 25 years

Just 25 years ago, there seemed to be little new to say about the Vikings – and that was particularly the case for Viking women. The centuries-old consensus was that Viking wives and daughters stayed

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Discover the real story behind one of the ancient world’s most notorious emperors

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The pandora’s box of paranoias

How many detectives are faced with the entire population of an island putting on a play for them?” This was the question director Robin Hardy posited as the central mystery to his 1973 masterpiece, Th