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Discover the tragically short life of Hamnet Shakespeare, the boy (potentially) immortalised in his father’s greatest work.

The bill eventually passed through Parliament and implemented calendar reform on Sept 2nd, 1752, which was immediately followed by Thursday 14th - technically removing eleven days out of the month.

Billy Hill was an icon in the London criminal underworld, but he tends to be forgotten. Read on to find out more.

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Famous for his comedy alter ego, 'The Pub Landlord', Al Murray, the award winning comedian and history fanatic will find out what lies behind England's greatest feuds with its closest neighbours: ...

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After winning independence from the British, how did the United States expand west? Here’s why the ‘Old West’ era lasted much longer than you might think.

The fall of Nicolae Ceausescu Nicolae and Elsa Ceaușescu were the last people to be executed by the Romanian state.