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Factual error: Gertrude Bell meets T E Lawrence and R Campbell Thompson while they are excavating at Petra. They were actually excavating at Carchemish, nearly 600 miles away and in a different country.

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Factual error: T E Lawrence is said to have a PhD. In fact, Lawrence did not have a PhD or any other higher degree.

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Factual error: Bell's father was said to have been heavily in debt while establishing his business. He didn't establish the business. His father did. He inherited it.

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Factual error: The British general at the party in Cairo wears a beard. Beards had been against regulations for the British Army for decades at that time. No British soldier would wear one.

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Factual error: The Victoria Cross is said to be "only for fallen heroes", which is how Gertrude immediately knows that Wylie is dead. But one does not have to be dead to be awarded the VC; many people have survived to be awarded it.

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Factual error: The timeline is completely wrong. The film begins in 1902, at which point Gertrude Bell has just left Oxford and is about to go to Persia. In fact, Bell was 34 in 1902 and went to Persia ten years earlier, in 1892. By 1902 she had already been travelling for a decade.

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Factual error: The detective constable is addressed as "Sir" by uniformed constables. They actually hold the same rank. Detectives do not outrank uniformed officers in Britain.

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Factual error: The police car that shows up after the fight with the Deviant in London has a siren that sounds nothing like a British police siren. More like a Continental European one.

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Factual error: There is a billboard in London advertising a display of "artifacts" at the Natural History Museum. British English spells it "artefacts" and the Natural History Museum in London only holds exhibits on natural history. A display of artefacts would be at the British Museum, a completely different institution in a different part of London. (00:07:25)

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Factual error: The Marine Engineering Officer on a submarine would be an experienced lieutenant-commander, not a young lieutenant.

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Factual error: As the Royal Navy has its own police (including detectives), there would be no need for a civilian detective to be airlifted onto a submarine, especially to investigate a sudden death that was not originally believed to be a murder.

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Factual error: The coxswain, who is a warrant officer (as it says in the last episode), wears a chief petty officer's rank badge.

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Factual error: The ID cards for the chief petty officers all show them in junior rates' round hats and 'sailor suits'. CPOs (and petty officers) wear officer-style peaked caps and jackets and ties. It is unlikely that they've never had their photos changed since they were junior rates.

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Factual error: Some of the ranks are wrong. There are too many chief petty officers (and they're too young). The coxswain would be a warrant officer rather than a chief. The marine engineering officer would be a lieutenant-commander rather than an inexperienced lieutenant.

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Factual error: None of the naval officers wear medal ribbons. Even if none of them have been in a war zone (unlikely) or received an honour (also unlikely, especially given one is an admiral), the more senior would still have jubilee medals and the long service medal.

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Factual error: The insignia worn by the submarine crew is inaccurate, including the lack of a white patch behind the trade badges and a strange made-up version of the White Ensign. Also the Submarine service emblem of two heraldic dolphins has them facing the other way.

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Factual error: All four Hodgson children go to Enfield Grammar School. Enfield Grammar School is a single sex boys' school, so the two girls could not go there. In addition, grammar schools in England are secondary schools. While the two girls (aged 11 and 14) are of secondary school age, their younger brothers are of primary school age.

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Factual error: Most of the crew seem to be Scottish. Even though the submarine is based in Scotland, the Royal Navy is a national service and its crew's composition would reflect that of the UK in general: the majority would therefore be English.

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Factual error: Superintendent Kane wears the insignia and uniform only worn by the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, not only six ranks above the rank he is supposed to be, but in an entirely different police force.

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Factual error: Thomas McGregor asks at the station in London for a 'round trip' ticket to Windermere. It's called a 'return' in Britain and no British person would ask for anything else.

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