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The princes in the Tower: why was their fate never explained?

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Ye olde travel guide: Heidelberg 1618. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Gertrude Bell: adventurer, diplomat, mountaineer and anti-suffragette. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Telling jokes in the trenches: First World War newspaper The Wipers Times celebrated in new BBC drama

Merchants and lower-ranking gentlemen often put pen to paper themselves, but wealthy men and gentlewomen were more likely to employ a scribe. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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How to send a letter in medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Flodden 1513: the biggest ever Anglo-Scottish battle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, displayed remarkable leadership of the British army at the battle of Waterloo. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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An engraved depiction of John Lilburne, who "stands as a towering icon of the liberal tradition". (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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My history hero: John Lilburne (c1615-57)

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Ye olde travel guide: Thessalonica 1423

Marston Moor, near York, was the site of the greatest battles of the Civil War – the battle of Marston. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Books interview: the life and career of Benjamin Disraeli. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A colourful painting from the 15th century showing several merchants gathered together

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Ye Olde Travel Guide: Borneo 1856. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of historian Sarah Foot at St Mary the Virgin Church

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Residents of Chongqing on the streets of their bombed-ravaged city in the autumn of 1940. China's temporary wartime capital was subjected to 218 Japanese air raids between May 1938 and August 1941, costing nearly 12,000 lives. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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China’s forgotten Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The master of dressage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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6 royal births that rocked a nation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ye olde travel guide: Astrakhan 1747. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history hero: John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George G Meade, best known for defeating Confederate General Robert E Lee at the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. (Photo by Matthew Brady/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

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The Royal Artillery Memorial in London is a tribute to the immense power of artillery and its dominant role in the Great War. Pictured here is a bronze statue of a Royal Artillery driver, leaning back against the parapet in an attitude of exhaustion or contemplation. (Photo by View Pictures/UIG via Getty Images)

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Three coal miners. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Elizabeth I: the monarch behind the mask. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tironensian communities such as that of Kelso Abbey were particularly popular in Scotland. (Heartland-Arts/Getty Images)

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Where history happened: the monastic revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of Hannibal at the battle of Trasimene, which is "today remembered as one of the most stunning victories in military history". (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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A big day in history: Hannibal smashes his foes "at the very gates of Rome". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 1832 Reform Act made wide-ranging changes to the British electoral system, creating 67 new constituencies, disenfranchising 56 boroughs and reducing another 31 to a single MP.  (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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A portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft. "She desperately wanted women to have the chance of an education and not set their sights too low," says Jo Brand. (Getty Images)

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History heroJo Brand chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aerial view of the Roman fort of Vercovicium

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German soldiers with a horse-drawn cart during the retreat from Ukraine in 1943. The idea of Teutonic efficiency was a triumph of Nazi spin, says James Holland. (Keystone/Getty Images)

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The great misconceptions of the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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