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Medieval

Richard III: your guide to the last Yorkist king of England

Julius Caesar. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Caesar's British gamble. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edgar the Aetheling is notably missing from the Bayeux Tapestry

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The lost figure of the Bayeux Tapestry: where is Edgar Ætheling?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Professor Stephen Hawking in his office at the University of Cambridge, 2003

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

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The 1815–46 Corn Laws: your guide to the crisis and why they were repealed

Nell Gwyn was a mistress of King Charles II

Stuart

Nell GywnThe orange girl who became a king's mistress in Restoration England

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Why treason was so unforgivable in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women 'take the air' in an attempt to ward off the Spanish Flu

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"Far too little, too late": what happened when Spanish Flu hit Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Josephine Baker with her adopted children. She called them the ‘Rainbow Tribe’. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Memorable mothers: history’s most remarkable mums. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Madame Tussaud's exhibition at Baker Street, London. But who was her first waxwork? (Photo by Bettmann, via Getty Images)

Georgian

Q&AWho was Madame Tussaud’s first waxwork?

Mary Anning was an extremely prolific fossil hunter

Georgian

Mary Anning: the woman who hunted dinosaurs

Author and biographer Max Adams (Photo by Alamy)

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Max AdamsBritain in the centuries after the Romans: “You can think of this era as a black hole into which our history tumbles”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry the Young King is crowned in 1170. (Wikimedia Commons)

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The real King Arthur and his Lancelot? Henry the Young King's remarkable friendship with William Marshal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Seacole is best known for her work during the Crimean War, where she cared for injured soldiers. But she was also well-known as a hotelier, traveller and author – a celebrity of the Victorian era. This is a contemporary painting of her

Victorian

Mary SeacoleVictorian celebrity, joyful hotelier and Crimean nurse

The 'Iron Duke' steam locomotive with railway workers

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The history of railways in Britain: from the first steam trains to the rail revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon

Tudor

Prince Arthur, Catherine of Aragon, and Henry VIII: a story of early Tudor triumph and tragedy

Spitfires under construction at the Vickers Supermarine works in Southampton, around 1940

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The difficult birth of the Spitfire – and how the WW2 fighter almost missed the battle of Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian

6 articles about…the Victorian era

Picture depicting the Cato Street conspirators

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To kill the cabinet: the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting of Henry IV, housed in the National Portrait Gallery, London. English earls, Scottish kings, French dukes and a Welsh prince all tried to unseat Henry, yet this most resilient of medieval monarchs prevailed over them all. (Photo by Getty Images)

Medieval

Henry IV: the usurper king

A portrait of King Henry VII of England, the first Tudor monarch

Tudor

Henry VII: your guide to the first Tudor king

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: poet, activist, trailblazer, runaway. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Is “Blitz Spirit” a myth?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lord Fiske, chairman of the Decimal Currency Board, makes a purchase at a Woolworths using the new currency on Decimal Day, 15 February 1971

20th Century

Decimal Day: when Britain said farewell to the shilling

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

Paul Delaroche's impression of Lady Jane Grey's execution

Tudor

Who was Lady Jane Grey? The tragic story of the 'Nine Days Queen'

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Victorian pet cemeteries: animals in the afterlife. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1520–40 portrait of Henry VI

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The miraculous afterlife of Henry VI. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, pictured in 1854. (Photo by Roger Fenton/Roger Fenton/Getty Images)

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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: what was their relationship like?

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