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Watercolor Painting Depicting Battle of Agincourt (Photo by © Historical Picture Archive/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 in England began in Brentwood, Essex as a protest at the collection of poll tax and reached a climax at Smithfield, London. Richard II (1367-1800) met the Kentish peasants who, under Watt Tyler (d1381), were demanding the end of serfdom. During the meeting William Walworth (d1385) Lord Mayor of London, wounded Wat Tyler who was taken to St Bartholomew's Hospital but was later dragged out of the hospital and beheaded. 19th century lithograph. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Part six in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1200–1249

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Part five in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1250–1299

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Part four in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1150–1199

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Part three in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1100–1149

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Part two in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1050–1099

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Part one in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1000–1049

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Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll in A Very British Scandal (left); Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (right)

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The Argyll divorce: the society scandal that rocked 1960s Britain

William the Conqueror was the second king of England to be crowned in 1066

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The coronation of William of Normandy on Christmas Day in 1066

This print from 1807 shows John Bull sat between the rival singers Elizabeth Billington (left) and Angelica Catalani, who sing lines adapted from The Beggar’s Opera.

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Vintners in an ale house, 1642. From a broadsheet titled ‘Health to All’, artist unknown. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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St Columba. This Irish patron saint's influence on the Christian church was, and still is, felt much further afield

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Black and white image of island prison, taken from the sky

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The battle of Alcatraz, 1946: the most violent escape attempt in the prison’s history

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What happened to Britain’s lost Roman legion?

Tom Smith's Surprise Cosaques, Christmas Crackers 1878. (Image by Getty)

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The history of Christmas crackers

A 13th-century fresco showing Isabella of Angouleme, Eleanor of Aquitaine and two squires

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Froissart illustration of Hugh Despenser the Younger's execution by being hanged, drawn and quartered. Despenser is on a ladder, as a man beside him disembowels him and tosses his entrails into a fire

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‘Godly butchery’: the horrifying history of hanging, drawing and quartering

Schoolchildren in Liverpool have their Christmas party in an air raid shelter built into a railway arch

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A woman slops here chamberpot from a window onto pedestrians in the street below in this woodcut

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The Normans had a profound influence on Britain – so why do we not speak French?

Still Life of Game Birds, oil on canvas. Birds such as goose, swan and peacock were often on the late medieval festive menu

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