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• Death and terror: executions at the Tower of London

  The Tower of London hides a dark history. It was built by the Norman invader, William the Conqueror, to help him control the strategic city of London, and has been not only a royal residence, but a

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• The Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift

  How the Allied Powers broke Stalin's attempt to blockade Berlin

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• Before homo sapiens in England

  This article looks towards the pre-homo sapiens persons who lived|worked}, travelled and died in the country for hundreds of thousands of years before sapiens people existed; it goes from the start of

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• Katherine Swynford: how a Prince's Mistress isbecame the ancestress of Royalty

  This article is the remarkable tale of how, in an era where rank and virtue were significant traits for a wife, a commoner and lover became the primary lady in England, and the ancestor of a Royal

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