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Dan Jones and Suzannah Lipscomb on 'Henry VIII And His Six Wives'

German astronomer Johannes Kepler c1620. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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The astronomer and the witch: Johannes Kepler’s fight to save his mother from execution

A group of five marble busts of typical early Roman citizens. The empire expanded by absorbing the peoples it defeated, giving rights and obligations to former outsiders. (Photo by Gjon Mili/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Mary Beard on why Rome ruled the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Monopoly maps: the history of MI9’s secret Second World War escape programme. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Shakespeare: the historians’ view. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Catherine Howard. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Catherine Howard: The death of innocence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Queen Elizabeth I painted by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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How Shakespeare rewrote history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Guillaume Apollinaire and his wife, Jacqueline Kolb, on the terrace of the boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, France, in 1918. (Photo by adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Charles II entering London in May 1660 following the restoration of the monarchy. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

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Clare Jackson"Charles II had to appeal to public opinion more than his predecessors did". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ruins of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. Henry’s motives when dismantling such monasteries “were much more complex than pure revenge or pure avarice alone”, says Adam Morton. (Photo by Getty Images)

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History explorer6 places to explore the dissolution of the monasteries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman garden at the House of the Golden Cupids, Pompeii. (Linda Farrar)

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A guide to ancient gardening. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A giant leap for mankind: William Harvey reveals the circulation of the blood

The Chateau d'Hougoutmont, Belgium, was the scene of one of the most important battles in British and European history – the battle of Waterloo. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Bravery at Waterloo: the button seller and the drummer boy

Chinese lanterns at Kek Lok Si temple, George Town, Penang, Malaysia. (Photo by Inti St Clair/Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Penang, Malaysia

An illustration from an 11th-century manuscript depicting a king and his minister doing justice, c1050. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Medieval English law in the time of Magna Carta. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1754: Siege of a town led by Godefroy de Bouillon (c1060-1100) 1st Crusade (1095-1099), showing Saracens firing arrows at Crusaders as they attempt to scale the walls. From manuscript of Roman de Godefroy de Bouillon. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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5 things you (probably) didn't know about the Crusades

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The Franciscans treating victims of the plague, miniature from La Franceschina, c1474, codex by Jacopo Oddi. Perugia, Biblioteca Capitolare (Library). (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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The hospital experience in medieval England

Aerial view on Westminster Abbey at night. (Photo by Pawel Libera/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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7 of England’s best medieval buildings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Joan of Kent. (Image by Getty)

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Joan of Kent: a perfect princess?

The Grand Bridge at Blenheim. (Getty Images)

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Bhimrao Ambedkar, May 1946. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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A portrait of Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty which ruled over much of India from 1526 to 1858. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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The Tudor sex guide

Elizabeth I’s Armada portrait. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images

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The Tudors’ unlikely allies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration from Dickinson's ‘Comprehensive Pictures of The Great Exhibition’. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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Borris, County Carlow, Ireland. (Photo by Timothy Seren/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh wave from the famous balcony at Buckingham Palace after the Queen's coronation on 2 June 1953. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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7 memorable moments in the history of Buckingham Palace

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The Revenant and the real Hugh Glass: how historically accurate is the film?

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A brave new world: the 1980s home computer boom

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