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Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn Ironside, son Ragnar Lothbrok and king of Kattegat

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Rege-Jean Page as Simon Basset and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton

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Bridgerton season one: “A period drama like no other”

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Charles Dickens: prison reformer, scourge of capitalists, champion of the poor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Workers repair Fleet sewer in 1854. London’s creaking sewer network sparked anxieties over what lay beneath the sprawling capital. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The effigy of Eleanor of Castile on her tomb

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Edward Jenner

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Q&AWhen did medical practitioners start to be called ‘doctor’?

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Nelson's passion for Emma – with whom he had a six-year affair – is writ large in his letters

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Richard III, Queen Victoria and Henry VIII. (Photos by Getty Images)

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Monarchy history quiz: test your knowledge of these kings and queens

Portchester Castle in Hampshire was intended as a coastal defence against raiders. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Wrens operating the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park, 1943

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Almond Hedgehog: A debonair addition to the hostess’s armoury in the Georgian period. (Illustration by Clair Rossiter for BBC History Magazine)

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Rushton Triangular Lodge was ostensibly a warrener's lodge but the biblical references that adorn its three exterior walls tell a different story. (Photo English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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This engraving by William Hogarth shows the final instalment of a sequence of artworks called 'The Four Stages of Cruelty' (1751). In it, the fictional Tom Nero is being dissected for anatomical studies at Cutlerian theatre near Newgate prison after being hanged for murder. Nero looks like the Dead-Alive, as though he can see and smell his own executed body on the dissection table. The chief physician sits in the centre on a high-backed chair, resembling a high court judge. He is surrounded by various medical men, including penal surgeons, who did gallows work. The skeletons of dissected criminals were usually refused a Christian burial and so were displayed as specimens, as can be seen top left and top right. (Photo by Guildhall Library/Getty Images)

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