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The Man Who Shot The Pope

Richard I's Awkward Wedding Night

Dynasty's Flamboyant Finale

Cocaine + Caffeine = Coca-Cola

The Return Of 'The Scream'

Duran Duran's James Bond Banger

Renouncing King John

America's Celebrity Child Soldier

Jerry Lewis vs The Holocaust

Roget's Lexical Legacy

Don't Call Me Bigot

Mussolini's Last Day on Earth

Jane Fonda's Workout

How To Brew Beer in Bavaria 🍻

The 'Hitler Diaries' Hoax

The Red Baron's Flying Circus

The Origins of AstroTurf

The World's Weirdest War

I Name This Ship Brittania

Tommy Cooper Dies On Stage

Meet The Naked Chef

The CIA's 'Brain Warfare'

Yes, We Have Bananas

Less of the Moors

The Nudge Revolution

I'm Betty Ford, And I'm An Alcoholic

The Surprising History of Post-Its

The First Motorbike

Let's Legalise Pinball

The Spaghetti Harvest

Riot in the Concert Hall

The First Ever Starbucks

Cleopatra ❤️ Caesar

The Heaven's Gate 'Ascendancy'

Flour Power: The Tichborne Dole and the Biddenden Maids

The Suffragettes of Sport

Ricky Martin's Latin Explosion

What Caused The Black Death?

The Horse Bus

Braille For Your Feet

Parading for St Paddy

Burn The Heretics!

Fall of the Maya

Yes, We Canberra

Meet The Luddites

The Foreigners Fighting For France

Hula Hoop Mania!

Stalin's Daughter

Shutting Down Napster

John Lennon's Jesus Controversy

Comstock's War On Obscenity

It's King Kong!

Unmasking Mardi Gras

And The Winner Isn't

The Lonely Hearts Serial Killer

Hello Francis, this is God

Get Your Specs On!

Let's Colonise Florida

Benedict Arnold: American Traitor

The Prince Who Drowned in Wine

From Hitler To Herbie: The VW Beetle

Write Me A Cheque

The Jamaican Bobsled Team

Malcolm X in Smethwick

The Urinary Leash

Meet Tom and Jerry

Magic Johnson: Hoops and Hope

I Am Anastasia

The Studio Run By The Stars

Barry Bremen, The Great Imposter

The £21,000 Masque

The Truth Machine

Bring Me The Head of Oliver Cromwell

Desert Island Discs' First Castaway

Lego Shifts To Plastic

Let's Embalm Lenin

There's A Baby In The Post

The Elephants of War

Unmasking New York's 'Mad Bomber'

The Chastity Belt and the Frenchman

Lalli and the Axe

Britain's Last Witch

Shooting 'Dr. No'

Death By Molasses

New York meets Snow White

Henry IV and the Philosopher's Stone

Creating The National Trust

Let's Bury Nelson

Britain's First Black MPs

Here Come the Harlem Globetrotters ⛹🏾‍♂️

Rink-O-Mania!

Alfred Dreyfus: From Officer To Outcast

Best Of 2025: The 'Ten Cent Beer Night' Riot

Best Of 2025: Land Rover's Rugged Beginnings

Best Of 2025: The 'New Coke' Debacle

Retrospectors Quiz of the Year 2025

When Cliff Ruled Christmas 🕊️🍷

Meet The Simpsons

The Krays in Soho

Where's Glenn Miller?

Is That Mary Magdalene?

The Muppets Do Dickens

Sinatra's Slapstick Kidnapping

Welcome To Wetherspoons

Britain's First Actresses

Who Needs A Switchboard?

What Happened to the Mary Celeste?

The Potato-Porting Polymath

Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madam

The Vietnam Lottery

The Sound of Luxury

Alger Hiss and the Pumpkin Papers

Signal-Jamming Aliens

Elizabeth of Russia's Bloodless Coup

The First Boob Job

The First Hanukkah

Microsoft's Windows Gamble

London's First Olympics

William Tell's Apple Adventures

The Star Wars Holiday Horror

Let's Go On Strike

Big Ben's First BONGGGG

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

Alice Chaucer, Three Times A Wife

How To Get To Sesame Street

Meteorite!

How '24' Changed TV

Kublai Khan's Kamikaze Climbdown

Digging Up King Tut

Phil Spector's 'Phantom Voice'

The BBC's Halloween Hoax

The Slave Rebellion

The M25 - Britain's Biggest Carpark

Jane Austen and the Profligate Prince

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Mourning Jane Seymour

Meet The Smurfs

Not The End Of The World

Madonna's Naked Photos

Parachute!

The Sound of the Circus

The Baby in the Well

How Lincoln Got His Beard

Mary Queen of Plots

Suffragettes... in the House!

Governing Outer Space

When Sumo Came To London

The Permanent Wave

TV's Greatest Salesman

America’s 1st Train Robbery 🚂💰

When Sinéad Shocked America

Meet Charlie Brown

Postcards - The Poor Man's Telephone

The Shipwrecked Mr. Crusoe

What Happened To Couto Misto?

Yves Rossy: Rocketman

The Falcon Clause: Dividing Britain

America's Transgender Celebrity

See Facts? Ceefax!

The Candy Bomber of Berlin

Discovering The Iceman

Welcome To Tiffany's

Vanessa Williams vs. Miss America

The First Student Newspaper

Digging the Trenches

Barrett ❤️ Browning

Let's Build The Pentagon

France's Last Execution

Laughter, Uncanned

Making Michelangelo's David

Welcome To Bavaria, U.S.A.

The Quiz Show That Won The Jackpot

Who Invented The Air Fryer?

Queen Of The Cuban Sea

Why Japan Loves Baseball

The Last Of His Tribe

The First Gay Games

The 38 Minute War

Colin The Caterpillar - A Cultural Odyssey

Beavers on the Moon

Leaving Devil's Island

Cat Bin Lady, Internet Villain

The Rolling Stones' Biggest Hit

The Surprising Start of Vietnemese Nail Bars

Apartheid and the Olympics

The Real Macbeth

Capturing Carlos The Jackal

Building The Berlin Wall

Ponzi Gets Busted

Who Invented Hip Hop?

I Need A Dollar

The Aryan Polynesian Hypothesis

The First Woman To Swim The Channel

Houdini's Last Escape

Bekonscot: Britain In Miniature

The First Michelin Guide

The Great Rum Debate

Where's Jimmy Hoffa?

The First Boy Scouts

The Plane That Crashed into the Empire State

Is it a Boat? Is it a Plane? No, it's Hovercraft

The Aussies Who Outswam The Soviets

Inside The Molly House

The World's First Motor Race

Let's Build Central Park

The Web's First Image

Rebranding the Royal Family

The Kennedy Curse

The Red Planet Gets Closer

Catching Billy The Kid

Blasphemy!

Adventures of the Boy Horsemen

Bill Haley's Teenage Anthem

The Miracle in the Ashes

America's Child Ambassador

Defeat of the Great White Hope 🥊

When Bowie Killed Ziggy

Cecil The Lion: Trophy Kill

The Walkman Effect

Writing 'Gone With The Wind'

Meet The Black Donnelleys

Scanning The First Barcode

The Playboy, the Architect and the Showgirl

The Town That Danced To Death

Busting 'The Teflon Don'

Inside The Black Hole of Calcutta

It's A Royal Cock-up

Amelia Earhart Flies To Fame

The Arrival Of Lady Liberty

'Nureyev's 'Leap To Freedom'

Marion Donovan: Housewife Inventor

The Second Mrs McCartney

The Very First 'Boat Race'

Meet Donald Duck

Digging Up Josef Mengele

So I Acquitted An Axe Murderer

The 'Ten Cent Beer Night' Riot

The Woman Who Shot Andy Warhol

When UEFA Banned England

The Peasants Are Revolting

The First Bank Holiday

Here Comes The Spanish Armada

Fan-Dancing, Dwarfism and Microwaves

Exposing Italy's Puppet Masters

Captain Kidd: Pirate or Privateer?

Introducing Pac-Man

Ed Miliband’s ‘Bacon Sandwich’ Moment

The Accidental Vibrator

Harold Pinter vs The Critics

Beau Brummell: Dandy on the Run

Launch of the Sky Girls

Death By Sex

The $8billion 'Kill Switch'

The Real Winnie The Pooh

Victory Day For Housewives

What You Didn't Know About VE Day

Hanging Lord Haw Haw

Never In The Field Of Human Conflict

World War Two's Weirdest Battle

The Shapes in the Sky

Are You A Frequent Flyer?

Land Rover's Rugged Beginnings

The Swedish Meatballs Controversy

Mutiny On The Bounty

Lisztomania!

The Last Ming Emperor

The 'New Coke' Debacle

The Man Who Cycled The World

Game Boy: Game Changer

It's Superman!

Let's Buy London Bridge

Ancient Egypt's Napoleon

The First Casino Royale

When Presidents Play Ball ⚾

Stealing The Stone of Destiny

The Birth of Copyright

The Speeding President

Venus, Reborn

When Wham! Went To China

Give Peace A Brand

Here Comes The Pony Express

Fleetwood Mac’s Breakup Masterpiece

Unearthing Pompeii

Meet The Teletubbies

Ed Sullivan Bows Out

Sacheen Littlefeather's Oscars Controversy

Italy's Deadly Roadrace

The Tunnel Under The Thames

Kidnapping Ronnie Biggs

The Most Expensive Divorce Ever

Stealing the World Cup

Welcome To Las Vegas

The Birth of Fast Fashion

Marie Stopes' "Mother's Clinic"

Making The Mikado

Mata Hari: Showgirl, Seductress, Spy

When The Dixie Chicks Got Cancelled

COPS Hits TV

Birth of the Book Club

Abducting Ellen Turner

The Real Captain Birdseye

Vietnam's Singing Soldier

Trashing The White House

Serfdom's Up!

The Double Helix Quartet

Pokémon Hegemon

The Shoe That Made Nike

Britain's Backyard Bunkers

How Not To Invade Britain

The First Hijack

How Orkney Became Scottish

Mexico's 45 Minute President

I Discovered Pluto

Britain Goes To School

The Night of 206 Stars

The 500,000 Year-Old Spark Plug

The Forbidden City's Final Emperor

The Monstrous Gerrymander

Trouble at the Tavern

Preventing Technological Surprise

Here Come The Minstrels

Too Mad To Rule: King George III

Meet The Sims

Who Killed Belle Starr?

Chimps In Space!

Hannah Hauxwell: Britain's First Reality Star

The First Burns Supper

The Search For Pancho Villa

The Ancients v The Moderns

Henry VIII's Head Injury

Rock N Roll's Big Night

Here Come The Swiss Guards

The DeLorean Dream

Ozzy vs. Bat

Conflict of Interest: Helen Lewis on Destruction and Reconstruction

Rebooting 'The Rivals'

Meet Don Quixote

How 'Hill Street Blues' Made TV Grow Up

The Caesarean Frontier

A Deadly Day At The Races

Sinclair's Electric Dream

Introducing Income Tax

Let's Capture Monaco

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Tonya and Nancy: Fire and Ice

Best Of 2024: Richard II’s Blowout Banquet

Best Of 2024: TV’s First Soap Opera

Best Of 2024: The Man Who Sold The Wind

Retrospectors Quiz of the Year 2024

Meet Ebenezer Scrooge

Renée and Renato's Christmas Hit

The First Christmas Card

When Thatcher Met Gorbachev

Who Ate All The Mayonnaise?

Winona's Shoplifting Scandal

Angry Birds Begins

The Dog Statue Controversy

Theirs Not To Reason Why

Joyce Brothers - $64,000 Swot

Christie's First Auction

The Earliest Dinosaur 🦕

Where's Agatha Gone?

The Enron Illusion

Concorde - The Future of Flight

The Cabbage Patch Riots

Mitzvahpalooza!

The First Frat House

The Medieval Titanic

Star Trek's Interracial Kiss

Let's Revolve A Restaurant

Beethoven's Biggest Flop

Pelé's 1000th Goal

Year of the Fistula

The (Lady) Pirates of the Carribbean

When Anne Married Mark

What Happened At Amityville

The Exploding Whale

Gangsters on the Gallows

Scott & Charlene Get Hitched

The Elephant and The Donkey

Catherine The Dead

The Men Who Stole Monopoly

America's First Catwalk

We ♥ Emoji

Casanova's Prison Escape

The 'War of the Worlds' Panic

Stealing The Star Of India

Meet Lemuel Gulliver

How To Bribe A Senator

Meet Mr Blobby

1,000 Songs In Your Pocket

The Body in the Cellar

The Greatest Samurai Battle ⚔️

Calling Andrew Sachs

The Exploding Tank of Beer

Crown The Concubine

Journey To Monkey Island

Meet Sherlock Holmes

Branson's Cola Gamble

The Smell of the Big Screen

Killing Yugoslavia's King

The World's First Constitution

Invasion of the Identical Twins

Birth of The Breastaurant

The End Of Siegfried & Roy

Creating Opus Dei

Screening The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Time For Tea ☕

When 3-D First Flopped

The French King of Sweden

Praise The Lord, It's Billy Graham

Sexing Up Jane Austen

Richard II's Blowout Banquet

Fonzie Jumps The Shark

Let's Illuminate Blackpool

How the Paralympics Began

Mary, King of Hungary

The Oklahoma Land Grab

I'mma Let You Finish

Meet The Monkees

The Real Lord of the Flies

Leopold And Loeb: Life Plus 99 Years

OMG! From Churchill to Chatrooms

The Self Service Revolution

Bring On The Beard Tax

The Night The Earls Vanished

Introducing eBay

Australia's Bikie Shootout

The Moscow-Washington Hotline

How Netflix Began

The Dizzy Leap From Brooklyn Bridge

Krakatoa!

Bogie and Bacall Burn Up The Screen

Balloons With Bombs On

The Voodoo Revolution

Never In The Field Of Human Conflict

Creating The Soap Box Derby

On Tour with the Siamese Twins

America's Nazi Summer Camps

Inside The Stanford Prison Experiment

The 'Mock' Battle of Manila

Singer's Sewing Machine

Britain's First Nudist Beach

When The Beatles Crossed The Road

California's Courtroom Siege

Meet The Addams Family

Let's Revive Welsh

Who Killed William II?

Let's Do The Twist

Little Hugh and the Blood Libel

Goodbye Top of the Pops

Bienvenue à l'Arc de triomphe

Let's Build A Language

When Mao Went Swimming

Finding Machu Picchu

Who Invented The Ice Cream Cone?

The Roanoke Mystery

Marathon Begat Snickers

Making Voting Secret

Publishing Punch

The Birth Of The Parking Meter

When London Stank

The Anti-Disco Army

Zheng He's Treasure Odyssey

Evolution on Trial

Mozart's Grand Tour

Kim Il-Sung: Good Mourning

Birth of the Bikini

Here Comes The Hamburger

Sailing Alone Around The World

Death of Hypercolor

When Sharks ATTACK!

Before There Was 'Crufts'

When Hugh Met Divine

The Real Pied Piper

A Flag For Gay Pride

Edward III's Garter Club

Let's Triangulate Britain

The Famous Painting Ape

Making The Metropolitan Police

Insuring Your Life

Build Me The Taj Mahal

The Vatican's Naughty Library

Let's Censor Hollywood

Meet Me At The Automat

King Tries Hotdog!

Tolstoy's Monastic Adventures

When 'Grease' Was The Word

It's Fun To Found The YMCA

When Lovelace Met Babbage

Roquefort: Cheese of Kings

Meet The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Controversial Birth of Corn Flakes

Hershey and the Chocolate Theme Park

Recording 'White Christmas'

Welcome To Quintland

The Very First Eurovision

Demonstration? Defenestration!

Jerry Lee Lewis's Child Bride

Burying Bob Marley

How To Survive A Nuclear Bomb

The Man Who Invented The Wild West

Marie Antoinette's Wedding

The Unkillable King George

The First Two Minute Silence

Cardinal Richelieu and the Table Knife

The Lady Who Left Her Baby Outside

Captain Blood and the Crown Jewels

Cocaine + Caffeine = Coca-Cola

The Earliest Ambulance

Sending Out Spam

Creating The King James Bible

America's Celebrity Child Soldier

Meet Mr Potato Head

Roget's Lexical Legacy

The First Mountaineer

The Band of Gold Mystery

Jane Fonda's Workout

Me At The Zoo

The 'Hitler Diaries' Hoax

Marathon Woman

Poland's Italian Queen

The World's Weirdest War

Alex Haley's Faction Phenomenon

Tommy Cooper Dies On Stage

The First Man in Space

Let's Go To Butlin's

Yes, We Have Bananas

Charles and Camilla's Wedding

The Nudge Revolution

The Battle on the Ice

Chinese Restaurant Syndrome

The First Motorbike

When Tarzan Went To Hollywood

The World's Strongest Man

Cleopatra ❤️ Caesar

Knights Gone Wild

Flour Power: The Tichborne Dole and the Biddenden Maids

Welcome To Sea World

Last Days of Alcatraz

What Caused The Black Death?

Gaudí's Magnum Opus

Braille For Your Feet

The Woman Who Made van Gogh

Finger Lickin' Lawsuit

Fall of the Maya

Dennis The Menace(s)

Meet The Luddites

The Marx Brothers Bow Out

Constantine's Sunday Sabbath

Shutting Down Napster

Che In The Sky With Jacket

John Lennon's Jesus Controversy

I Want My MTV

Salem's Witchcraft Epidemic

Dord: The Ghost Word

Unmasking Mardi Gras

Woodrow Wilson and the Grand Canyon

The Plot To Kill The Cabinet

The Most Famous Sheep in the World

When Polaroid Changed Photography

Let's Colonise Florida

When Jarvis Met Jacko

The Monk Who Met The Mongols

The Delia Backlash

Hollywood's Gossip Queens

The Jamaican Bobsled Team

Death of the 9 Day Queen

Will vs Gareth

Inventing The Credit Card

Chaplin: Birth of The Tramp

I Am Anastasia

The Plastic That Changed The World

The First Groundhog Day

The First Groundhog Day

The Hashish Club

TV's First Soap Opera

Bring Me The Head of Oliver Cromwell

Bush, Frum and the Axis of Evil

The Man Who Sold The Wind

Soundtracking the Royal Wedding

I've Struck Gold!

The Elephants of War

Bjorn Borg's Retirement Bombshell

I Impregnated Lucy

Arriving At Botany Bay

Ireland's First Divorce

Shooting 'Dr. No'

Wikipedia: Hello World

Motown Begins

England's First Lottery

Opening Up University

Let's Bury Nelson

Can You Smell Eggs?

Meet Jekyll and Hyde

Dawn of the Hit Parade

The Siege of Sidney Street

Ronald Reagan: Hollywood's Governor

Inside Barnum's Museum

Best of 2023: Captain Kidd: Pirate or Privateer?

Best of 2023: Richard I's Awkward Wedding Night

Best of 2023: The Counterfeit Queen of Soul

Retrospectors Quiz Of The Year 2023

Mariah's Christmas Hit

Panto's Greatest Dame

The War on Christmas

Introducing The Nutcracker

Spice World!

Dubya Dodges A Shoeing

The ‘Pop Goes The Weasel’ Craze

Is That Mary Magdalene?

The Man Who Sold The Eiffel Tower

Let Them Drink Curry

Morcambe, Wise and Mr Preview

The Real Santa Claus

Who Needs A Switchboard?

Elvis, Jerry Lee, Johnny & Carl

When Gnomes Took Over The World

Football's First International

Marriage of the Moonies

The Sound of Luxury

The Berners St Hoax

QVC's First Day

The Tamagotchi Effect

Fall of the Knights Templar

The First Hanukkah

The Real Moby Dick

Turn To Page 3

When Space Mountain Saved EuroDisney

The Queen's Soviet Spy

Let's Go On Strike

Hypnosis Goes Legit

The Temple of Reason

Roosevelt's Panamanian Photoshoot

The Instant Message Murder

Meteorite!

Creating The At-Home Pregnancy Test

Muhammad Ali and the Hail of Toothbrushes

The First Cheerleader

The Flying Artilleryman

The BBC's Halloween Hoax

Building The Chunnel

Rebel Without A Script

Making 'Under Pressure'

America's First Black General

Mourning Jane Seymour

Not The Beginning Of The World

Australia's Most Iconic Building

David Blaine, Trickless Magician

Let's Buy Alaska

The Sound of the Circus

Catch Me If You Can

Reviving Hebrew

Playboy's Identity Crisis

The Japanese Exclusion League

Governing Outer Space

Rigging the World Series

Bienvenue au Moulin Rouge

To Versailles! To Versailles!

Carving Mount Rushmore

When Sinéad Shocked America

Meet Peter Rabbit

The Inquiry Office

Let's Get Metric

Let's Catch A Steam Train

Yves Rossy: Rocketman

Thank You For Not Smoking

Welcome to Downing St

The 'Cod War' Heats Up

The Pope, the Antipope and the Other Pope

Discovering The Iceman

Welcome To Tiffany's

Hitler's Swastika Hijack

Oh Say, Can You See?

Escape of the Drug Guru

Barrett ❤️ Browning

Let's Build The Pentagon

Last of the Tasmanian Tigers

The Umbrella Assassin

Circumnavigating The Globe

Welcome To Bavaria, U.S.A.

The Quiz Show That Won The Jackpot

Candle In The Wind II

I Say, Boy, It's Foghorn Leghorn

The Grouse Massacre

The Last Of His Tribe

Noodles: The World's Convenience Food

The End of the Pirate Monk

When The Baltics Held Hands

Leaving Devil's Island

Cat Bin Lady, Internet Villain

Discovering Helium

The Dingo Baby-Snatcher

The First Accidental President

The Real Macbeth

Capturing Carlos The Jackal

America's Biggest Mall

The Slap Heard Around The World

India's First Christians

I Need A Dollar

The Aryan Polynesian Hypothesis

Put Him in the Stocks!

The Fake Critic

How JFK Got His Purple Heart

The First Michelin Guide

The Great Rum Debate

When Zombies Came To Hollywood

Raleigh's Tobacco Adventures

Rembrandt's Money Troubles

Is it a Boat? Is it a Plane? No, it's Hovercraft

The Aussies Who Outswam The Soviets

Herostratus: Burning Ambition

Napoleon's Surname Decree

Surfin' 1800s USA

The Web's First Image

Rebranding the Royal Family

Mr. Dynamite

Queen Vic's New Gaff

The Miners Dumped In New Mexico

Blasphemy!

Adventures of the Boy Horsemen

Meet Pinocchio

Kalashnikov's Killing Machine

Jeff Bezos and the Infinite Bookstore

Victory Day For Housewives

When Bowie Killed Ziggy

Debating Darwin's Theory

Eminem vs His Mom

Amos 'n' Andy 'n' the NAACP

Meet The Black Donnelleys

Scanning The First Barcode

Bobbitt

McEnroe’s Wimbledon Meltdown

Righteous and Harmonious Fists

Inside The Black Hole of Calcutta

It's A Royal Cock-up

Humanity Dick and the RSPCA

Blackadder Begins

How Spiderman The Musical Lost $60m

You Have The Right To Remain Silent

Marion Donovan: Housewife Inventor

The Day Nero Died

The Hawaiian Pizza - A Legacy

My Name Isn't Prince

Digging Up Josef Mengele

So I Acquitted An Axe Murderer

Who Invented The Telephone?

Heimlich’s Big Maneuver

When Psy Broke The Internet

The Peasants Are Revolting

When Australia Said Sorry

Shakespeare Unbanned

Sugar, Sugar and the Cartoon Band

Captain Kidd: Pirate or Privateer?

Introducing Pac-Man

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Fox's 'Glee' Gambit

Dracula! Live on Stage!

Louie, Louie and the FBI

Beau Brummell: Dandy on the Run

Launch of the Sky Girls

Richard I's Awkward Wedding Night

The Opening Night of 'Cats'

The Strangler in the Ring

Meet Mr Punch

The Teen Who Hijacked The Subway

Renouncing King John

Debut of the Daily Mail

Box Office Poison!

The Shapes in the Sky

Don't Call Me Bigot

The Duel That Shocked France

Murder In Lafayette Square

Lisztomania!

CW: The Last Ming Emperor

The Red Baron's Flying Circus

The Truth About Timbuktu

Becoming Princess Grace

It's Superman!

Let's Buy London Bridge

Meet The Naked Chef

The Crazy Queen of Spain

Apple's Forgotten Co-Founder

Stealing The Stone of Destiny

The Kodak Moment

Bottling Elizabeth Taylor

Give Peace A Brand

Here Comes The Pony Express

Riot in the Concert Hall

Dr Long's Ethereal Adventures

Unearthing the Terracotta Army

Ed Sullivan Bows Out

Sacheen Littlefeather's Oscars Controversy

The Suffragettes of Sport

Handel's Biggest Hit

The Elephant That Inspired 'Dumbo'

The Most Expensive Divorce Ever

Stealing the World Cup

Parading for St Paddy

Murder at the Masked Ball

Give Me Your Blood

Making The Mikado

Mata Hari: Showgirl, Seductress, Spy

The Foreigners Fighting For France

Write E For Eunuch

Return of the Zodiac Killer

Abducting Ellen Turner

The Real Captain Birdseye

Comstock's War On Obscenity

How Not To Invade Ethiopia

Kidnapping The Eaglet

The Double Helix Quartet

Pokémon Hegemon

Hello Francis, this is God

The Dress That Launched Google Images

The Mistress and the Witch

Birth of the Burglar Alarm

How Orkney Became Scottish

From Hitler To Herbie: The VW Beetle

Pope Gregory's Sneeze

The Counterfeit Queen of Soul

Let Me Be Your Valentine

The 500,000 Year-Old Spark Plug

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Meet Tom and Jerry

Horseracing Hits Britain

I'm Too Sexy For This Chart

Bring Out Your Vanities!

Here Come The Minstrels

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The £21,000 Masque

Christian Bale's Terminator Freakout

Killing King Carlos

Chimps In Space!

Hannah Hauxwell: Britain’s First Reality Star

Let’s Embalm Lenin

Brides on the Move

The Nellie Bly Express

27 Years in the Jungle

Rock N Roll’s Big Night

Lalli and the Axe

Introducing the BlackBerry

The 17th Century UFO

The Last Queen of Hawaii

Meet Don Quixote

Henry IV and the Philosopher's Stone

The Cryogenic Rush Job

BA's 'Dirty Tricks'

How Rockefeller Got Rich

Introducing Income Tax

Rink-O-Mania!

When Bonnie Met Clyde

Let's Build The Burj

Hanging Lord Haw Haw

Captain Blood, Colonel Sanders and the Cyclonic Comedienne

The Retrospectors Quiz Of The Year 2022

Edison’s Christmas Lights

Mud’s Christmas Hit

The Carnival on the Water

Meet Ebenezer Scrooge

Dior's New Look

Napoleon’s Second Funeral

Broadway's Biggest Flop

The Resigning Pope

Winona's Shoplifting Scandal

Here Comes Corrie

There’s Something About Mary

Capturing The Blue Marble

Disaster at the West Coast Woodstock

Christie's First Auction

Rebuilding St Paul's

There’s Poison In My Pint

Let's Stop Smallpox

Who Shot JFK?

The Cabbage Patch Riots

The Boy on the Raft

The Lucy Fossil

Meet The Jukebox

Bye Bye Blackbeard

Let's Revolve A Restaurant

How Star Wars Changed Movie Trailers

The Last Sultan

Ivan vs Ivan

The Best A Man Can Get?

When Anne Married Mark

Welcome To Stevenage

Birth of the Big Things

The Last Shōgun

Mastermind of the Gunpowder Plot

The Elephant and The Donkey

Harry Potter: The Movie

The Day The (Rave) Music Died

Lady Chatterley's Lawsuit

Moving to the White House

Casanova’s Prison Escape

Welcome To Harvard

The Man Who Saved The World

Wyatt Earp's Greatest Gunfight

Pepys the Philanderer

Meet Mr Blobby

Welcome To The Guggenheim

The Boy Who Poisoned His Granddad

Here's One I Snorted Earlier

The Black Magic Massacre

The Exploding Tank of Beer

The First African-American Patents

Martin Monti - American Traitor

Dirty Weird! Jesus Story!

Vatican II: This Time It's Personal

The Smell of the Big Screen

Gambetta Takes Flight

The Play That Never Ends

The End of American Apparel

Here Comes The Orient Express

The End of Siegfried and Roy

Thunderbirds Are Go!

The 33-day Pope

King of the Coup

Hunting Noah's Ark

The French King of Sweden

Introducing 'Club Retrospectors'

Here Comes Nintendo

The All-Female Jury

The Birth of Mexican Wrestling

First Cannes Film Festival

Let’s Illuminate Blackpool

Dubbing Gerry Adams

Rebirth of the MINI

Moscow Shoots For The Moon

The Man With The Hole In His Head

Meet The Monkees

Let's Crash Some Trains

The First Miss America

The Umbrella Assassin

Up The Royal Oak

Bring On The Beard Tax

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Solar Explosion!

Nokia’s Beloved Brick

Gorilla Marketing

The Moscow-Washington Hotline

When Caesar Invaded Britain

The Beatles’ Giggling Guru

The Last Hieroglyph

The ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ Robbery

Balloons With Bombs On

The Whole Truth

The First TV Weather Report

Party at the Palace

The Deadly Air Race

America's Nazi Summer Camps

The Bodies Buried at Bedlam

The Long Count

Hollywood’s Favourite Dog

The Not-Yet Leaning Tower of Pisa

When The Beatles Crossed The Road

The Girl in the Comic Strip

Dom Perignon Tastes the Stars

Storming the Sacred City

Don't Mess With Jeanne

Let's Do The Twist

The Cult of Olaf

Fingerprints Go Legit

Let's Go To Berni Inn

The Eccentric Outlaw

When Mao Went Swimming

When Longbows Defeated Scotland

The Outing of Milli Vanilli

The Gymnast with the Shattered Kneecap

When Paris Went Underground

Making Voting Secret

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Gaddafi's Favourite Redneck

The Spock Generation

When New York Went Dark

The Many Wives of Joseph Smith

Zheng He's Treasure Odyssey

Shelley: Goth, Genius, Infidel

Three Tenors, Zero Royalties

The Best Thing Since Wrapped Bread

Jeff Bezos and the Infinite Bookstore

Here Comes The Hamburger

The Last White Rajah

In Case of Emergency, Call 999

Let's Go Cruising

Bonnie Prince Betty

When Hugh Met Divine

The Chicken of Tomorrow

Inventing The Typewriter

Public Enemy Number One, Number One

Empire of the Sunglasses

The Famous Painting Ape

Fancy Meeting You Here

Don't Wear Orange

Don't Eat The Ice Cream

Zsa Zsa and the Beverly Hills Cop

Let’s Censor Hollywood

Dmitry The Undead