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  Alexander the Great’s empire crumbled into chaos after his death. How did it fall apart so quickly?

  He survived battlefield wounds and conquered an empire stretching from the Mediterranean to India. So when Alexander the Great finally died, why was there no plan for succession?

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  “No votes, no golf!”: how the suffragettes made sport a political battlefield

  In the early 20th century, sport came to be regarded as a male-only activity – by men, anyway. As Rachel Hewitt explains, the overlooked history of women’s participation in cricket, golf, wrestling, hockey and even mountaineering is intertwined with the emergence of the suffragist movement

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  It was the one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World – so why was it destroyed three times?

  Older and much bigger than the Parthenon, this white marble monument in modern-day Turkey became the model for ancient Greek temples – but its history is far from peaceful

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  The rise of Alfred the Great

  As the Viking Great Heathen Army refused to leave Anglo-Saxon England, the pressure mounted on the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to respond, placing the future of the land in the hands of Alfred the Great.

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  This Iron Age woman had her brain scooped out. Why?

  Why would our Iron Age forebears smash craniums and sharpen bones? A forensic archaeological study suggests these were acts of respect

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  Daily Quiz: 15 October

  View Riddle on the source website If you want to test your historical knowledge further, why not try our weekly crossword too?

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  The stolen Native Americans who shaped US history

  Between 1492 and 1880, as many as 600,000 Native Americans were enslaved in the area that would become the United States. That’s the figure estimated by historian Linford D Fisher in his book Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in US History – one of the books shortlisted for the 2026 Cundill History Prize. In today’s episode, he speaks to Matt Elton about the extent of this slavery, the impact that it had on tribal communities, and its legacy today.

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