People watching the Royal Wedding

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Covid-19 saw the UK’s universities, such as the University of Glasgow (above), cancel in-person teaching. The logistics of teaching and studying during the pandemic are proving complex. (Photo by Dreamstime)

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Hiring more black academics “to teach all sorts of histories” is key to instigating real change in university history education, lecturer Charlotte Lydia Riley argues. (Photo by Shutterstock)

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A watermill, with fish nets and eel traps visible beneath the waters of the mill leat Luttrell Psalter. England, c 1325-1335. (Photo by Alamy)

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Emma Corrin as Princess Diana in season 4 of 'The Crown'. (Photo by Netflix)

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Welsh-born author Ken Follett, pictured at Hay Festival, Hay on Wye, UK, 2019. (Photo by Alamy)

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Empire builder Maharajah Ranjit Singh sits astride a horse as an attendant holds a parasol over him. Singh is historically credited with growing his ancestral warrior-clan, the Sukerchakia misl, into a grand imperial dynasty. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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A Sikh tragedy: the Indian kingdom that fell foul of the British empire

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Enola Holmes (left to right): Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes, Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes, Sam Caflin as Mycroft Holmes. (Photo by Robert Viglaski/Legendary)

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The Spanish Princess Part II. (Image by Starz)

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The real history behind The Spanish Princess

An official of the British East India Company riding on an elephant with an escort of foot soldiers and mounted Indian retainers, India, end of 18th century (Photo by Getty Images)

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Portrait of Catherine of Aragon

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Pilgrim Fathers boarding the Mayflower

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A painting of the Tudor succession

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London burns behind Tower Bridge on 7 September 1940

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A Hawker Hurricane in flight over Britain

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History graduate Steve Humphries' 1998 film exploring the stories of women who worked in Magdalene laundries

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Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren

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The marriages of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren: how the dynasty shaped Europe

How did England react to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1751? (Illustration for BBC History Magazine)

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A suffragette march

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Elizabeth I knights Francis Drake on his ship Golden Hind after his round-the-world voyage. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Empress Matilda

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An illustration depicting the deposition of the body of Edward the Confessor in the tomb at Westminster in 1066. (

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William Cecil, also known as Lord Burghley, with Queen Elizabeth I. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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London during the Blitz - the systematic night-time bombing of the British by the Luftwaffe in 1940 - 1941. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Elizabeth I, shown in a portrait commemorating victory over the Armada

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AFS firemen tackle a blitz fire amidst the rubble surrounding St Paul's Cathedral, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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