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Robert Louis Stevenson, the 19th-century English poet and novelist perhaps best known for his books 'Treasure Island' and the 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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Robert Louis Stevenson: novelist, playwright, poet, traveller. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1842 self-portrait of Sarah Biffin

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The armless artist who wowed Queen Victoria. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman reading a vintage thesaurus

Ancient Greece

Q&AWho wrote the first thesaurus?

A stained glass portrait of Dr Samuel Johnson in 17 Gough Square, London Inns court c1989.

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The Queen's century of change. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II in 2006 film 'The Queen'

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Screen QueenElizabeth II on film

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Queen Elizabeth II, in March 2022 - the year of her platinum jubilee (Photo by Getty Images)

20th Century

QuizQueen Elizabeth II and her reign

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip mark the diamond jubilee in 2012 by watching the Jubilee River Pageant, where a seven-mile flotilla sails past them (Photo by Eddie Mullholland - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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Queen Elizabeth II, in March 2022 - the year of her platinum jubilee (Photo by Getty Images)

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Marriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête.

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Episode 5Change & innovation in 60s Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The effigy of King John on his tomb in Worcester Cathedral

Medieval

Your guide to King John, the monarch who issued Magna Carta

A lodger disputes his bill with his landlady in this 1812 print by Thomas Rowlandson

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What was it like being a renter in Georgian London?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Irish people demonstrate in Downing Street in London in 1921. The partition of Ireland between the six north-eastern counties and the rest of Ireland took place on 3 May 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920

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A brief history of the partition of Ireland

Aerial view of Piccadilly Circus in London.

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The Great Seal of the Commonwealth of England

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The Interregnum: Britain's republican decade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, at dusk

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Portrait of James, Duke of Monmouth, the 36-year-old illegitimate son of Charles II. (Photo by Alamy)

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

A modern image depicts Caratacus attending a tribunal in Rome, having been captured by Claudius’ soldiers in Britain

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In the AD 40s, the British king Caratacus led a huge revolt against Rome's occupying army. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, better known to history as the Ladies of Llangollen

Georgian

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Our collage shows three generations of the Dudley family

Tudor

The Dudley dynasty: the family behind the Tudors

An illustration of Colonel Blood

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Illustration of Queen Matilda of Boulogne, by Eleanor Shakespeare

Norman

Matilda of Boulogne: Norman England’s warrior queen

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