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Before Dallas: The Forgotten Attempt to Kill JFK

Randy Gardner: The Teenager Who Stayed Awake for Eleven Days in 1964

Effie and Avis Hotchkiss: The Mother and Daughter Who Rode Across America in 1915

Rockwell Kent, Herman Melville and the Revival of Moby Dick

Le Monocle and the Women Who Shaped Queer Montparnasse

Ronald Reagan’s Pocket Library of One Liners

Inside Brian Wilson’s Longest Battle: Control, Care, and Dr Eugene Landy

On a Mission from God: The Chaotic Making of The Blues Brothers

Fred Hampton: The Rise, Betrayal and Murder of a Black Panther Leader

Eugene Lazowski and the Truth Behind the Fake Epidemic That Saved a Polish Town

Rubber Soul: How the Beatles Plastic Soul Album Changed Music

Through a Northern Lens: Michael Kay’s Manchester Photographs of the Early 1970s

Recalling the Death of John Lennon on December the 8, 1980

Violette Morris: From Sporting Legend to National Controversy

Nick Cave, Mark E Smith and Shane MacGowan at the NME Pop Summit in 1989

Adolphe Sax and the Strange Life Behind the Saxophone

Victorian Hairwork and Its Many Meanings: Rethinking the Myth of the Mourning Wreath

At Nuremberg with Göring: The Story of Dr Douglas Kelley and the Minds He Could Not Escape

'LA BANDIDA': The Wild Life and Legacy of Graciela Olmos

Inside the Church of Scientology: Power, Secrecy and the Human Cost of Control

Rattlesnake Kate: The Colorado Woman Who Fought Off 140 Snakes and Lived to Tell the Tale

The Last Men Hanged for Sodomy in England:The tragic story of James Pratt and John Smith, 1835

Elagabalus and the Roman Scandals that Ended a Boy Emperor

The Mirabal Sisters And The Courage That Helped End a Dictatorship

Hungerford 1987: The Life of Michael Ryan and the Day That Changed Britain

Mary Kenner: The Overlooked Inventor Who Tried To Change Everyday Life

Nubar Gulbenkian: The Orchid Wearing Playboy Millionaire Who Lived Life Entirely on His Own Terms

The Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: A Journey From Broadway Flop Risk to Oscar Winning Classic

Audrey Munson: The Rise and Fall of Americas First Supermodel

Healing with Voltage: Inside Samuel Monell’s 1910 Electrotherapy Manual

George Burchett: The Life and Work of the King of Tattooists

Steel Grandpa and the Race Across Sweden: The Remarkable Ride of Gustaf Håkansson

The Communards and the long shadow of the Paris Commune of 1871

The St Brice’s Day Massacre of 1002: Æthelred, the Danes, and England’s Winter of Blood

Bil and Cora Baird’s Indian Adventure: When American Puppetry Met the Land of Storytellers

Michael Dillon: The Doctor Who Became The First Trans Man In Surgery And The First Western Monk At Rizong

Martin Gusinde and the Vanishing Worlds of Tierra del Fuego

Music, Baseball and New Orleans Pride: Louis Armstrong’s Forgotten Team, the Secret Nine

Mona (Marilyn) Monroe – The $10 an Hour Pin Up Model Who Became a Legend

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605: How Robert Catesby and Guy Fawkes Tried to Blow Up Parliament

A 'Man Amplifier' By Cornell Aeronautical Laboratories

The Day America Pretended a Hijacked Plane Had Landed in Cuba

Rat Poison, Cheating, Close Deaths, The Bonkers Story Of The 1904 Olympic Marathon In St. Louis

When Marilyn Went to War: The Story of Marilyn Monroe’s Visit to the Troops in Korea

Marilyn Monroe’s Last Possessions: The Story Her Artefacts Still Tell

Malcolm Campbell’s Leap to Three Hundred: How Blue Bird, Rolls Royce and an Obsession Turned Salt and Sand into Speed

The Making of The Godfather And The Uneasy Handshake Between Hollywood And The Mob

Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, A Quiet Love Story Hiding in Plain Sight

The Salpêtrière Hospital: The 19th Century Parisian Asylum That Shaped Modern Medicine and Misunderstood Women

Viale dei Martiri: The Tragic Legacy of the Bassano del Grappa Massacre

Napoleon’s Island Escape: How the Emperor of Elba Outwitted Europe

The Beast of Jersey: Edward Paisnel and the Masked Terror Who Haunted an Island

Training for the Moon: How Nine of the Twelve Apollo Astronauts Rehearsed Their Missions in Iceland

Halloween Traditions 1900 to 1930: Mischief, Costumes and Fortune-Telling Games

Amy Winehouse: The Camden Days Before the World Came Calling

The Kray Twins Myth: Why Britain Still Romanticises Ruthless Gangsters

Goldie Williams: The Defiant Face of Vagrancy, Race, and Respectability in 1890s America

When Hungary Rose: The 1956 Revolution and the Shadow of Soviet Rule

From Rags to Riches: The Story of Sarah Rector Americas Youngest Oil Millionaire

The Untold Story of the Great Emu War: When Australia Took on Its Most Unlikely Enemy

The Ancient Roots of Technocracy: How the World’s First Bureaucrats Ruled Before Kings

Pretty Boy Floyd: The Folk Outlaw of the Great Depression

Julia Margaret Cameron: The Queen of Victorian Portraiture Who Saw Beauty in the Blur

Peter Fleming: The Adventurer, Spy, and Writer Who Inspired James Bond

John DeLorean: The Dreamer Who Built the Future and Fell Into a Trap

The Predator Next Door: The Real Story of Robert Berchtold and Jan Broberg

Mathias Rust: The Teen Pilot Who Landed in Red Square

Kirsty MacColl, Cozumel, and a Family’s Long Fight for Justice

The Colosseum After the Gladiators: From Blood and Sand to Sanctuary and Stone

Vera Coking vs Donald Trump: The Widow Who Wouldn’t Sell Her Home

Ivan Aivazovsky and His Miniature Masterpieces: The Romantic Painter Who Turned Self-Promotion into Art

Grace McDaniels: The Remarkable Life of the “Mule-Faced Woman” Who Made a Living in the Sideshows of America

The Death of Nancy Spungen And The Final Hours Of Sid Vicious

Beneath the Surface: Bruce Mozert and the Playful World of Underwater Photography

Sultana Chand Bibi: The Warrior Queen Who Defied the Mughals

The Assassination of Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister Ever Murdered

Jenny Barkmann: The “Beautiful Spectre” of Stutthof Concentration Camp

The Night John Lennon Lost a Bet and Elton John Made Him Sick: Resulting in Lennon's Final Stage Performance

When Henry Ford Received the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi Officials, 1938

Adeline Watkins: The Woman Who Claimed to Love Ed Gein

Henry Gunther: The Last Soldier Killed in World War I

The History of Anglesey's Plas Newydd

Jetons de Maison Close: The Secret Currency of Parisian Pleasure Houses

Drexel’s Annie Oakleys: The History of a Pioneering Women’s Rifle Team

The Gibsons of Scilly: The Family Who Captured Cornwall’s Past in Glass and Silver

The Chicago Tylenol Murders: The Crime That Shook America and Changed Medicine Forever

The Boys Who Ran Away to New York: How Two Dublin Kids Fooled the World in 1985

The Camm Family Murders: How the Case Against David Camm Fell Apart

The Disappearance of Michael Rockefeller: Mystery, Art, and the Edge of the World

The Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius: Lessons from the Philosopher Emperor

The Beatles Butcher Cover: How a US Only Album Became The Most Expensive Sleeve In Music

The Clash’s Combat Rock: How a Punk Landmark Foreshadowed the Band’s Collapse

The Tragic Death Of Virginia Rappe And The Trials Of Fatty Arbuckle

Clara Maass; The Nurse Who Died Volunteering For Medical Experiments To Study Yellow Fever.

Johnny Coulon The Bantamweight Boxer Who Became the Unliftable Man

John Aspinall The Gambling Showman Who Built Zoos for Tigers and Dukes

Noor Inayat Khan – The Princess Spy Who Defied the Gestapo

The First Great American Road Trip: Horatio Nelson Jackson, Sewall Crocker, and Bud the Bulldog

The House Of Guinness: More Myths Than Malt