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| Title | Date published | ||
| The raising of the Mary Rose | 2022-09-29 | ||
| Castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos | 2022-09-28 | ||
| The power of Jomo Kenyatta | 2022-09-26 | ||
| Festival of Light | 2022-09-23 | ||
| Iran-Iraq War begins | 2022-09-22 | ||
| The first Pope to visit Africa | 2022-09-21 | ||
| Ancient fossils give new insight | 2022-09-20 | ||
| World War Two child evacuees in Britain | 2022-09-19 | ||
| The last days of Queen Victoria | 2022-09-16 | ||
| When the Queen opened Buckingham Palace | 2022-09-15 | ||
| Windsor Castle fire | 2022-09-14 | ||
| Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Derby | 2022-09-13 | ||
| The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II | 2022-09-12 | ||
| The car that charmed Brazil | 2022-09-10 | ||
| The Candelaria child massacre | 2022-09-08 | ||
| Building of Brasilia | 2022-09-07 | ||
| The murder that shocked Brazil | 2022-09-06 | ||
| Doomed hero of Brazilian democracy | 2022-09-05 | ||
| Mikhail Gorbachev: Release of Irina Ratushinskaya | 2022-09-02 | ||
| Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika | 2022-09-01 |