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Moves still from Rob Roy

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How Walter Scott’s stories shaped Scotland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The rise of the Paralympics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of the England team that faced Australia at the Oval in the 1896 Ashes series

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Batting for the British Empire: how Victorian cricket was more than just a game. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prince Charles with his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten at Windsor

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Why was Lord Mountbatten, Prince Charles’s great-uncle, assassinated?

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Portrait of English admiral Lord Horatio Nelson

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Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson: a rebel with a cause

Joep de Beer of Holland throws a javelin at the Stoke Mandeville Games

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Q&AWhen and where were the first Paralympics held?

William Wallace on trial in 1305

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William Wallace: who was the Scottish rebel who defied Edward I?

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British police history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Working-class girlhood in 1930s Bolton. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne Boleyn, second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII

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The history hidden in British heritage sites. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Thomas Crapper started a plumbing business in Chelsea in 1861 and pioneered some of the most revolutionary designs of sanitary engineering in the 19th century – but he didn't 'invent' the toilet

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The legend of Thomas Crapper, the man who didn't invent the toilet

Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I

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Early Medieval Britain: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Walter Scott: an engraving after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence of the Scottish poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott

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The British Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on the day of George VI's coronation

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Britain’s May Queen: your guide to Queen Mary of Teck

An architectural grotesque of a woman displaying her vulva

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How naughty was the past? The hidden depths of the medieval church

Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials

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Alice Roberts“Graves are like time capsules – little microcosms of prehistoric culture". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne of Denmark, wife of James I of England

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Anne of Denmark: a killer queen?

Mary, Queen of Scots during her trial at Fotheringhay Castle – where she was also executed for her alleged role in the Babington Plot (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Mary Wortley Montagu: the scourge of smallpox

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History heroSteven Berkoff chooses Laurence Olivier (1907–89)

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Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women munition workers stacking a reserve of shell castings during WWI

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