The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
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EDITOR’S CHOICE
Guy Walters
In 1944, the Polish resistance managed to recover parts of Hitler’s secret V-2 rockets and passed vital intelligence to Britain, the operation becoming one of the most remarkable, yet overlooked, intelligence successes of the war.
Alec Ryrie
An exploration of the forgotten global ambitions of Protestantism, showing how missionaries sought to spread their faith far and wide, their patchy success an indication of the imaginative limits of early modern Europeans.
The documentary series has made an impressive start, combining rarely seen footage with sharp historical insight and confident storytelling.
Steve Tibble
Outnumbered, isolated and feared, the Assassins and the Templars became two of the medieval world’s most formidable organisations despite being on opposite sides of the crusades.
Steven Parissien
Britain’s truly iconic buildings are those whose architecture, symbolism and evolving histories have allowed them to transcend aesthetics and become expressions of national identity.
An overview of how early Norman castles were built, evolved, and reshaped power in England after the Norman Conquest.
Rory Waterman
A grisly Lincolnshire folktale from Holbeach tells of the gambling antics of three drunken men in a churchyard, a story that passed into local legend as an enduring warning of sacrilege, remorse, and supernatural retribution.
Philip James Day
A rediscovered wartime diary shows how the Persian Corridor supply route workedin practice. Not as strategy, but as constant repair under immense pressure.
Rory Naismith
In the age of Offa, a short-lived archbishopric at Lichfield (787–803) reflected the expansion and consolidation of Mercian rule, though later Canterbury sources recast it as a contentious and anomalous creation.
Robert Verkaik
As the Normandy landings approached, the surprise resignation from MI6 of the author Graham Greene – a close friend of Kim Philby – cast a shadow over one of the war’s most carefully orchestrated intelligence operations.
