The BackTracker History Show
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Based in the UK, this self confessed history geek takes you for a stroll down memory lane and shares stories and interesting nuggets of information that has been discovered along the way. From tales of tragedy and sadness to epic stories of human courage or creativity, there are many people in history who have made their mark, however small.
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Somerset Artist & Suffragette
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Francis Eaton's Adventure
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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The Mystery In The Village
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Filton's War Heroes
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Bristol's Code Breaker: Gordon Welchman
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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The Captain With Two Victoria Crosses!
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Remembrance Day 2025
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Joe Rogers and the Royal Charter
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Halloween Special 2025
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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The Locked Bank Mystery
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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The Robber's Stone
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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The Looting of SS Ettrick
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Eric Harper: WW2 Life in the Royal Airforce
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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More Short Tales
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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The Dickin Medal
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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The Cheltenham Torso Mystery
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Shorter Tales
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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HMS Trincomalee
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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The Legend of Lady Anne Clifford (Pt 2)
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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The Legend of Lady Anne Clifford (Pt1)
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Who Killed Young Betty?
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Florence Simpson
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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The Suicidal Murderer
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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USS Huron: Bristol's U.S Hero
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Lillian Wyles: A Pioneering Police Officer
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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The Murder of Billy the Tinker (Pt 2)
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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The Murder of Billy the Tinker (Pt 1)
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Lillian Bland: An Aviation Pioneer
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May 26, 2025 |
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Murder at Saxton Grange
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May 19, 2025 |
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The HMS Victoria Disaster (Pt 3)
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May 12, 2025 |
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The HMS Victoria Disaster (Pt 2)
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May 05, 2025 |
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The HMS Victoria Disaster (Pt 1)
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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Emily J. Harding: Protesting Through Art
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Martha Scriven: The Sad End of a Young Widow
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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The Father of Australian Architecture
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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A Poor Victorian Family's Trauma
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Death of a Front Line Clergyman
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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The Bristol Dinosaur
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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A Bristol Murder: Killer Boy
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Cpl Theodore Veale VC: A WW1 Hero
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Samuel Pepys Tour Around Bristol
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Death of a Policeman (pt2)
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Death of a Policeman (pt1)
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Local Heroes: Bedminster
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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The Exercise Tiger Tragedy
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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The Dark History of Blackberry Hill Hospital
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Halloween Special: Ghost Tales of Bodmin Gaol
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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The Notorious Lightfoot Brothers
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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The Devon Spy (Part Two)
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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The Devon Spy
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Sir George White: The Father of British Aviation
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Dead Woman's Ditch: A Tale of Love & Hatred
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Adela Breton: The Mexican Explorer
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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The murder of a Police Officer
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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The Strange Last Journey of Donald Crowhurst
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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The Death of a Tax Collector
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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The Great Flood of 1607
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Cornishman Slain in Tombstone
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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The Chocolate Box Murder
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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The History & People of Dyrham Park
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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The Sinking of the Orianda
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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The Davy Lamp
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Murder of a Coal Seller
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May 27, 2024 |
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The SS Great Western: The Extra Bits
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May 24, 2024 |
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Sit Henry Irving: The Acting Knight
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May 20, 2024 |
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The SS Great Western
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May 13, 2024 |
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Bristol's Last Execution
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May 06, 2024 |
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Bristol's WW1 Heroes
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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The Lemonade Murder
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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St Peter's Hospital: Workhouse and Asylum
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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James Holloway & The Rye House Plot
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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The Stroud Paricide
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Samuel Plimsoll: The Sailor's Friend
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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The Murdering Cousin
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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R.N.L.I: Celebrating 200 Years
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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200th Anniversary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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The Babbacombe Murder Mystery (Part Two)
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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The Babbacombe Murder Mystery (Part One)
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Valentine's Day Special
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Reginald Burt: A Soldier's Regret
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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The Amazing Victoria Drummond (Part Two)
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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The Amazing Victoria Drummond (Part One)
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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The Murderous Bank Robber
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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New Year's Day Special
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Christmas 2023
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Crossroad Burials
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Emmeline Pethick Lawrence: The Bristol Suffragette
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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The Bristol Blitz
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Murder in Austria
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Remembrance Day Special 2023
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Halloween Special: Thomas Thorneycroft & Tettenhall Towers
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Murder of a Taxi Driver: The Hunt for Percy Toplis (Part Two)
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Murder of a Taxi Driver (Part One)
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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England V Wales: When International Football came to Town
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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His Masters Voice: Nipper The HMV Dog & other tails
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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The Body in the Chest
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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The Tragic Death of Leslie Howard
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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The Circus Of Varieties
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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The Unsolved Murder of Gertrude O'Leary
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Sarah Guppy: The Victorian Female Inventor
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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The Dean Lane Pit Disaster
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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The Evil in her Eyes
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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The Charitable Railway Ladies
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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The Legend of Maude's Elm
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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The Sad and Tragic Life and Death of Alice Woodman
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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The Bristolian Creator of Penguin Books
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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The Beatles and Bristol
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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The Devizes Workhouse Murder
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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The S.S Great Western and the Hero Engineer
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May 29, 2023 |
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Dickie Valentine: The Forgotten Fifties Singing Icon
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May 22, 2023 |
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The Doomed Fiancée
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May 15, 2023 |
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The Butler's Revenge
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May 08, 2023 |
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John The Painter: Britain's First Terrorist
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May 01, 2023 |
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The Inventor of the Easter Egg
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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The Rescue at Robin Hood's Bay
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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The Punch Drunk Murder
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Operation Red Trek (Part 2)
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Operation Red Trek (Part 1)
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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The Wick Murder
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Mary Kennedy and the First Fleet
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Jamaica Inn
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Death at Rode Hill House House
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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The tale of the Activist Family: The Davenport Hills
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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The Scheming Salesman
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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The Battle of Lansdown Hill
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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The Traitors Castle
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Christmas Traditions from around the UK
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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The Halifax Explosion
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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London's Darker Covent Garden
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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London's Covent Garden
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Ann Yearsley: The Poetical Milkwoman of Bristol
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Charlotte Pugsley: Murder in Leigh Woods
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Remembrance Special 2022: Lest We Forget
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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The Last Battle of H.M.S Glowworm
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Warmley Clock Tower: Halloween 2022
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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The Dark Tale of Sarah Freeman
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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The Brother's Betrayal
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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WW1 American Soldier's Letters
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Deadly Victorian Food
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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They Died For a Friend
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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The Lancashire Jigsaw Murders
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Murdered On Stage
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Tragedy Personified: The Sarah Siddons Story
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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More Tales of Highwaymen
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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The Tale of the Bristol Giant
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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The Tale of Half-Hung McDonald
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Death of the Rolls Royce Lady
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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The Killing Of Lillie Davis
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Letters From The U.S Civil War
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Birthplace of the Cowboy Hat
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Was it The Yorkshire Ripper?
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Murder in the Cinema
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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HM Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Special
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Murder on the Farm
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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The Help Wanted Murders in Australia
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May 30, 2022 |
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Murder at Stourhead
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May 23, 2022 |
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The Sinking of H.M.S Doterel
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May 16, 2022 |
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Bristol's Songwriting Duo Who Taught The World To sing
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May 09, 2022 |
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Bristol's Suffragettes - The Horfield Five
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May 02, 2022 |
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The Blitz Attack
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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The Visit of Queen Elizabeth I
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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The Tale of the Missing Bridegroom
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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The Sad Tale of John Gray
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Raja Ram Mohan Roy: The Father of Bengal Renaissance
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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The Horfield Barrack Shooting
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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The Somerset Witch Attack
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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The Demon Barber of Bedminster
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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The Sinking of the Steamship London
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Murder At The Inn
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Uncle Art - The Pioneer of Country Music
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Gloucester Highwaymen
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Vickers Viking Crash Disaster
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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The History of Christmas Carols
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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More Christmas Traditions
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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Christmas Traditions
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Pantomime Chaos
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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The Avenging Sailor (Part 2)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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The Avenging Sailor (Part 1)
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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WW1 War Poems
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Remembrance Day 2021: War Memories
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Tales From Gloucester Prison
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Halloween 2021: The Ghosts of Gloucester Prison
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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The Female Husband
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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The Neighbour From Hell
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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The Mystery of Owen Parfitt
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Kings Weston House: The War Years and Beyond
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Kings Weston House: The Early Years
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Saving The Flying Dutchman
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Massacre By Submarine Part Two : In Their Own Words
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Massacre By Submarine
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Francis Tuckett: Mountaineering Pioneer
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Death of the Balloon Girl
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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The Kingswood Tragedy pt2
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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The Kingswood Tragedy
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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The Bathurst Explosion
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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The Jersey Lily
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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The Winterbourne Plane Crash
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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H.M.S Formidable
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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The Devizes Petticoat Murder
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Jun 28, 2021 |