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On 14 April 1865, an actor by the name of John Wilkes Booth murdered the president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. What drove Booth to pull the trigger? And how was he able to evade the law for 12 days? spr.ly/6014wEmbo

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A lack of medical and scientific understanding meant that life-threatening beauty treatments, some of them going back to ancient times, were still relied on in the 20th century. Discover the dangerous cosmetics used here: spr.ly/6019wEmpJ

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Browse our archive of HistoryExtra podcasts on war and military history, from Nelson’s demise at Trafalgar to the role of Indian soldiers in World War One... spr.ly/6016wEmM8

#OnThisDay in 1862, Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard completed their first test of what became known as the pasteurisation process to preserve food.

Since the beginning of recorded history humans have recorded mysterious apparitions in the sky. But the birth of the modern UFO era can be traced to 1946-47 when media interest coalesced around the first sighting of ‘flying saucers’... spr.ly/6018wB2n2

Tudor Jumbles! These simple, delicious, and elegant biscuits are the feature of my History Cookbook column in this month’s BBC History Magazine. And, as always, the recipe video will be up soon for HistoryExtra members. Let me now if you give them a go 😊

Netflix movie 'Shirley' tells the tale of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the US Congress, whose subsequent run for the Democratic presidential nomination drew both admiration and disdain. But how much of the small-screen story is true? spr.ly/6016wB2Er

Why did Byron become so famous?

On the 200th anniversary of Byron's death, academic and broadcaster Corin Throsby considers the cultural shifts that led to his explosion in popularity.

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