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Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton: life, discoveries, rivalries and the truth about the apple

Francis Drake portrait

Tudor

Francis Drake’s forgotten role in the English slave trade

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Britain and the slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A police officer uses his baton on a protester in Glasgow, 1919

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1919: Britain's red summer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tournament between the Duke of Brittany and the Duke of Bourbon. (Photo by Christophel Fine Art/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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BlogMedieval(ish) matters #7: what it meant to be 'blue' in the Middle Ages (and more killer rabbits). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

People flee to boats on the River Thames to escape the Great Fire of London, September 1666.

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Coffee, plague and the Great Fire: the pleasures and perils of living in Restoration London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Frank Gillard pictured during a 1944 rehearsal for battle reporting

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History heroChris Mason chooses Frank Gillard (1908–98). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From Nelson to Churchill: challenging British heroes with Afua Hirsch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men operate a cotton gin in Dahomey, Mississippi, in 1898

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7 key questions about the transatlantic slave trade – answered

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A brief guide to the transatlantic slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Abolition in Britain: the link between slavery and the British national identity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Olaudah Equiano (Photo by Getty)

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Who was Olaudah Equiano – and why was his story of slavery so important?

An 1826 illustration from 'The Black Man's Lament

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David Olusoga"Thousands of Britons opposed abolition – because they owned slaves". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Saturday lecture: Medieval disease and medicine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John Profumo in October 1962

20th Century

Sex, lies and spies: the real history of the Profumo Affair

Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, 1521. This was an assembly of the Holy Roman Empire called by King Charles V in Heylshof Garden, Worms, to address Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Reformation. (Photo by The Print Collector via Getty Images)

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What was the Reformation?

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Henry Avery: the legendary 17th-century pirate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The front facade of the prehistoric chambered tomb of Wayland's Smithy

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BlogMedieval(ish) matters #6: Viking military mind games, Anglo-Saxon mind maps, and embroidery before the Bayeux Tapestry. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. When Edward became king in January 1936, he was the darling of the nation. Yet when he abdicated in December 1936, few believed he was making the wrong decision. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Love before duty: the story of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

A researcher examines the medieval Voynich Manuscript with a magnifying glass

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The Voynich Manuscript: who wrote the mystery medieval codex and what is it trying to tell us?

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The cosmopolitan Chaucer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I.

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Equestrian portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer from the Ellesmere manuscript of his Canterbury Tales (14th century). "The world in which Chaucer moved was very outward-looking," says Marion Turner. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Cosmopolitan Chaucer: the 14th-century poet’s inventive, international life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two members of the BEF (British Expeditionary Forces)

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Indian soldiers at Dunkirk. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charles II and his parties

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Was Charles II too randy to rule?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving depicting a scene of chaos at Bethlem Royal Hospital

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Bethlem Royal Hospital: why did the infamous Bedlam asylum have such a fearsome reputation?

A scene from the Smithfield Decretals depicting a rabbit beheading a man. Rabbits seem to have a strange place in medieval imagery – and are depicted as having strangely violent tendencies. "It’s the sort of thing to give you nightmares," says David Musgrove. (Photo by Album/British Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

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BlogMedieval(ish) matters #5: chivalry, medieval killer rabbits and prisoners of war in the 15th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Edward II

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In profile: King Edward II

King John II made prisoner at the Battle of Poitiers by the English during the Hundred Years War, 1356. Illustration

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Medieval prisoners of war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval punishments, Toulouse, 14th century. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

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How bloody was medieval life?

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