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[Archaeologist discovers two sunken World War freighters containing bullion worth £162MILLION - 03 Feb 2012 A marine archaeologist told today how his sea exploration company discovered two World War freighters ontaining silver bullion worth £162million.... [VIDEO: Dickens characters traced by historian - 02 Feb 2012 There and #39;s new evidence that Dickens lived much closer to some of the characters in his novels than previously thought.... [Niall Ferguson: Krugman May Be Right, and #39;Very Large Debts Are Sustainable and #39; - 31 Jan 2012 Unless countries get control of their ballooning debts, Ferguson has argued, we will be headed for crisis after crisis. And Ferguson remains convinced that Europe is on the edge of disaster.... [VIDEO: Ancient artefact returns to Kabul - 31 Jan 2012 An important ancient artefact smuggled from Afghanistan during the civil war has been returned to a museum in Kabul.... [Brian Cox, David Starkey and … Colin Firth; a new type of public intellectual' - 26 Jan 2012 The success of today and #39;s celebrity scientists may pave the way for a new generation of academics and, indeed, new public expectations of them After a year of science that has seen Brian Cox present a BBC primetime Night with the Stars, David Starkey being denounced as a historian for exchanging the library for the TV studio and celebrity academics launching the private New College of the ...... [Downton Abbey branded and #39;cultural necrophilia and #39; by historian Simon Schama - 18 Jan 2012 The leading historian said the costume drama starring Hugh Bonneville (pictured) and set in Edwardian Britain was and #39;hyper-overacted and #39; and and #39;cultural necrophilia and #39;.... [English Heritage backs new hotel proposals - 12 Jan 2012 AN INFLUENTIAL heritage organisation has backed plans for a 165-bedroom hotel in the shadow of York’s Bar Walls.... [Titanic auction: Pictures of artefacts from among 5,000 shipwreck items set to be sold off - 06 Jan 2012 Items as small as a hairpin and as big as a chunk of the Titanic and #39;s hull are among 5,000 artefacts from the world and #39;s most famous shipwreck that are to be auctioned in April, close to the 100th anniversary of the disaster....	[World War I plaque thief jailed - 02 Feb 2012 A man is jailed for 18 months for stealing a World War I memorial plaque from a south-east London church.... [France adopts Armenian law making it illegal to deny WW1 Turkish genocide - 23 Jan 2012 A new bill – which was passed by 127 for votes to 86 against – will increase diplomatic tensions between Turkey and France, two Nato allies....	[Rabbi Daniel Brenner: Will Men Stand Up Against the Sex Slave Trade in Israel' - 01 Feb 2012 Just as we need to rally to combat the crimes of sex traffickers to free women and girls, we need to ramp up our efforts to help the next generation of men make sense of the world that they see on the screen and the one they encounter in the streets.... [Baraa Melhem: Arab-Israeli couple charged with and #39;locking man and #39;s daughter in dark rooms for 10 years and #39; - 01 Feb 2012 Hassan Melhem, 49, has been indicted on charges that he regularly beat his daughter Baraa, (pictured) now 20, after being egged on by her as yet unnamed step-mother.... [Class, cricket and the French Revolution - 01 Feb 2012 The era when shepherd bowled at aristocrat... [Jan. 30, 1948 \| Mahatma Gandhi Assassinated - 30 Jan 2012 On Jan. 30, 1948, the Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was murdered by the Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse, who fired three shots at close range as the 78-year-old Gandhi entered a prayer meeting.... [Queen Victoria's tiara turns up in a Highgate home - 25 Jan 2012 A dazzling tiara belonging to Queen Victoria turned up in a private Highgate home last week, Heathman was surprised to learn.... [Book reveals the Welsh were not just exploited at the time of the British Empire, they were also exploiters - 18 Jan 2012 A WELSH historian who believes Wales’ part in the British Empire has been largely ignored has produced a new book to put the record straight.... [Is cartoon comparing Michelle Obama to Marie Antoinette racist' - 10 Jan 2012 The image has Mrs Obama and #39;s face grafted on to a 1775 portrait by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty and has been altered so that she is pointing at a globe....	[Michelangelo Signorile: From Stupid to Dangerous - 02 Feb 2012 Newt Gingrich and #39;s Tennessee campaign co-chair is none other than Tennessee GOP state Sen. Stacey Campfield, which seems only fitting since Campfield, too, appears to fancy...... [Mona Lisa copy painted by Leonardo da Vinci and #39;s student unveiled in Madrid - 01 Feb 2012 Art historians have hailed the discovery made during conservation work at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, as one of the most remarkable in recent times.... [Polish lawmakers don Guy Fawkes masks to protest ACTA - 27 Jan 2012 Thousands roil Polish streets – more protests planned Over 30 Polish lawmakers held up paper replicas of the Guy Fawkes mask, made famous by both Anoymous hacktivists and the Occupy movement, during a protest in parliament of their country and #39;s signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the EU and #39;s highly controversial online-piracy legislation.…... [Odd 17th Century remedies study - 26 Jan 2012 ...and other old medical remedies revealed by Swansea historian... [Brampton pupils come face-to-face with Samuel Pepys' diary - 19 Jan 2012 CHILDREN at Brampton Village Primary School have been finding out about the village’s most famous resident Samuel Pepys thanks to a £13,500 grant from The Heritage Lottery Fund.... [Sarah Sands: The Tudors are the seasoned beams of British history - 07 Jan 2012 The historian Niall Ferguson once complained that schoolchildren are taught only about Henry VIII and the world wars. Yes, but let and #39;s face it, these are the blockbusters of British history....	[Medieval coins found in Cumbrian garden declared as and #39;treasure and #39; - 03 Feb 2012 A hoard of more than 300 medieval silver coins unearthed in a Maryport garden has been declared as treasure.... [High cost of Boris and #39; opposition to Robin Hood Tax - 01 Feb 2012 Hackney’s London Assembly Member, Jennette Arnold has called on London Mayor ... A protest to highlight the serious problem of fuel poverty took place on the ...... ['Romans won't stop house building plan' - 27 Jan 2012 THE boss of the company behind plans for a £65 million housing boom in Allerdale does not believe the Romans will stand in his way.... [Viking death squads found in mass grave shows how Anglo-Saxons hit back at the invaders - 24 Jan 2012 Researcher Dr Britt Baillie claims to have worked out why 54 decapitated bodies, pictured, were found in Dorset in 2009 and will reveal all in a documentary screened tonight....


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