People watching the Royal Wedding

United Kingdom

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Sarah Smith and Eleanor of Aquitaine

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Richard, Duke of York challenges Edmund Beaufort, Suke of Somerset, to pick a side in the Wars of the Roses in Henry Payne's 1910 painting 'Choosing The Red and White Roses in the Temple Garden'

Medieval

QuizHow much do you know about the Wars of the Roses?

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St Hadrian of CanterburyMedieval African theologian. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Robin Hood: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The George Inn at Norton St Philip

General History

In search of Britain’s oldest pub

George C Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan, which pledged billions of dollars to help rebuild war-torn Europe

Cold War

What was the Marshall Plan?

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Countryside campaigners: four women who fought for our green spaces. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of William IV

Georgian

Your guide to William IV, the ‘sailor king’

Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative party

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Behind the newsWhy PMs get the push. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Troops clear damage after the Lynmouth flood disaster of 1952

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Britain’s flood disasters: a brief history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Youths throw stones at the Royal Ulster Constabulary in the Catholic Bogside area

20th Century

Why we should remember…The battle of the Bogside

Reverend Spencer Parsons, head of the Chicago branch of the Clergy Consultation Service (CCS), an interfaith group dedicated to helping women obtain abortions before 'Roe v Wade'

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The American clergy who helped women get abortions before Roe v Wade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Holbein's portrait of Edward VI

Tudor

Edward VIWhy the forgotten Tudor king had the makings of a monster

Composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky rehearses with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ahead of a concert to be broadcast on the Third Programme, 1958

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BBC at 100The Third Programme: a cultural institution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A British poster dated 1917 designed by Bert Thomas. (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

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A brief history of smoking

England's Daley Thompson during the high jump event of the decathlon at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Emonton, Canada

20th Century

A brief history of the Commonwealth Games

The presenters of the recently launched BBC Radio 1 assemble for a group photo outside Broadcasting House, 1967. (Photo by Robert Stiggins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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In a photograph taken at Bishop's Stortford railway station in Hertfordshire, 1972, resettled Ugandan Asians wait for the train that will take them to their new home. (Photo by Alamy)

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Saint Wilfrid

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15 minutes of fameMarc Morris chooses Saint Wilfrid

A real and a virtual Tycho Brahe surveys the heavens next to his mural quadrant in the frontispiece to ‘Machines of the New Astronomy’. (Photo by DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI via Getty Images)

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A history of science in 10½ objects. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, on display at the British Museum

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The Elgin Marbles: what are they and where are they located?

David Attenborough with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, in a famous scene from 1979’s Life on Earth

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Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893

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A portrait of Moses Roper, the first African-American fugitive from slavery to make a home in Britain

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Moses Roper: the story of an American fugitive from slavery in Britain

African-American double act Buck and Bubbles (Ford L Washington and John W Sublett) were part of a coterie of entertainers of colour broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s (Photo by UPI/Bettmann via Getty Images)

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An illustration depicting the Great Fire of London.

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Your guide to the Great Fire of London, plus 10 surprising facts

Geometric pavers, colourful doors and gingerbread trim on a pair of Victorian terrace houses

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A composite image of Elizabeth I, Mary I and Elizabeth of York

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How Elizabeth of York paved the way for her granddaughters to rule

The tombstone of a Roman soldier named Vivius Marcianus.

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