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  1. Rome’s war of words – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  2. Did King Harold cause the 1066 Norman invasion? – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  3. Bloody queens and hairdresser kings: Lucy Worsley rethinks Britain's monarchs – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  4. Storm warnings: five weather moments that altered history – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  5. Ale, terror and a martyr’s death: what not to miss on the Bayeux Tapestry – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  6. The Spitfire: love at first flight? – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  7. A beginner’s guide to medieval farming – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  8. History repeating? – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  9. The Magdalene laundries: Ireland’s secret shame – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  10. The troubled birth of England – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  11. Cultural dreams v political nightmares: life in interwar Weimar – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  12. Athens v Sparta: a Greek tragedy – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  13. Sex, secrecy and social ambition: inside a Georgian masquerade – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  14. Marilyn Monroe: the brains behind the bombshell – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  15. How the Black Death devastated the Muslim world – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  16. The secret history behind the Odyssey – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  17. "War minus the shooting": football during the Cold War – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  18. Georgian Britain's most curious hoax – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  19. US at 250: the hard road to independence – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  20. Elizabeth II: the great survivor – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  21. The seven deadly sins: a medieval self-help guide – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  22. Lost stories from Pompeii – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  23. Nell Gwyn: England's mistress – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  24. The Asante gold: a tale of blood and plunder – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  25. How medieval mothers took back control – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  26. Rome's people power – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  27. The 'Iron Curtain' speech: why Churchill poked the Russian bear – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  28. Anne Boleyn’s image problem – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  29. Mob rule: the rise of the mafia – HistoryExtra Long Reads
  30. What Shakespearean food reveals about early modern England – HistoryExtra Long Reads