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Following the death of the legendary Frankish King Clovis, his son Clothar I divided the mighty real
The Rise of the Franks - a mighty host of warlords; forefathers of the western world and forgers of
In as early as 5000 BC the vast and spectacular city of Uruk - replete with towering walls, glisteni
The 1st of August 1798 saw the British fleet sailing towards Alexandria into a land of classical his
In the wake of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1797, Horatio Nelson, though a much acclaimed publi
Valentine’s day, 1797: the British Royal Navy are hoping for a decisive clash with the Spanish enemy
It is 1793 and France has declared war on Britain, meaning that the British navy must serve as both
It’s 1758 and Britain’s greatest naval commander has just been born. The young Horatio Nelson has in
“Nixon now! Nixon now! More than ever we need Nixon now!”It's the 5th of November 1968, and Richard
The Democratic National Convention is in Chicago, and the incumbent president, Lyndon B. Johnson, ha
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, w
“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred;
The peaceful figurehead of the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s, Dr Martin Luther King had i
"Tonight I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.”On the night of Sunday, 31st
“Let us march! Let us march! May impure blood water our fields!”Written after the declaration of war
The war between revolutionary France and the allied powers of Prussia and Austria has reached fever
During the "Ancien Regime", royal executioners held an unholy status, and would strike up fear in th
“You have shaken off the yoke of your despots, but surely this was not to bend the knee before a for
Welcome to Season 2 of The French RevolutionRevolutionary fervour threatens to engulf the streets of
In the aftermath of Boudicca’s uprising, the Romans felt they could not withdraw from the British Is
