People watching the Royal Wedding

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A scene from 'They Shall Not Grow Old', showing how film director Peter Jackson digitally remastered footage of the First World War. (Photo courtesy of THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD/ WingNut Films/ Peter Jackson. Original black and white film © IWM)

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Marshal Foch and his accompaniment leaving Compiègne in order to inform the French government in Paris about the Armistice agreement with Germany. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

First World War

Where was the Armistice signed?

11th November 1918: An army lorry in a London street on Armistice Day, carrying jubilant passengers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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11 November 1918: The day the world turned upside down. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Timothée Chalamet as Prince Hal

Medieval

“It’s hard to square Prince Hal’s pacifism with what we know about Henry V”: a historian’s review of The King

Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and her fiance, Philip Mountbatten at Buckingham Palace, after their engagement was announced, 10th July 1947. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A portrait of Henry V of England. The Treaty if Troyes, signed in 1420, saw Henry named Charles's regent; by marrying the latter's daughter, Katherine, Henry secured his position as heir to the throne. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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A wayward prince? King Henry V's misspent youth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sketch of Guy Fawkes with a lantern kneeling in front of barrels of gunpowder

Stuart

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot: everything you need to know

Portrait of Henry V

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Portrait of King Henry V. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Henry V: 5 facts you might not know about the king's softer side. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Nichola Tallis

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The footprint of Old Sarum cathedral

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A c1860 depiction of Wentworth Works steel manufacturer in Sheffield

Victorian

Why Britain punched above its weight

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A contemporary portrait of scientist Ada Lovelace

Victorian

History heroKonnie Huq chooses Ada Lovelace (1815–52)

King John out hunting

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Simon the cat

General Modern

10 top cats in history

A fruit and vegetable market, painted by Joachim Beuckelaer.

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A depiction of a 13th-century parliament, sitting under Edward I. The Good Parliament of 1376, during the reign of Edward III, sowed the seeds for discontent that was to come.

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Britain in the early 80s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1st May 1975: Three documents, for and against, published for the referendum on the Common Market

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Photo of a gramophone

General Modern

Q&AWho do we say 'put a sock in it'?

Princess Margaret and her husband, Lord Snowdon, in San Francisco during a visit to America, November 1965. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Getty Images)

20th Century

“Cheap men and expensive bottles”: Princess Margaret’s love affairs

James VI and I depicted in Parliament, c1605

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Extinction Rebellion take over Trafalgar Square, London, in protest on 16 October 2019. (Photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

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Richard III, anonymous painting around 1500. (Photo by Alamy)

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Being invited to become a 'guest' of the Tower of London in medieval England meant, more often than not, that you would soon be food for the crows. (Image by Getty Images/RM Creative)

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Gin Lane, a print issued in 1751 by painter and printmaker William Hogarth. It depicts the perceived evils of the consumption of gin. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Georgian

The 18th-century craze for gin

Inside the fort was a famous spring, St Helen’s Well, today Robin Hood’s Well. (© Bill Henderson)

Anglo-Saxon

Brunanburh: Where did the battle that saved England take place?

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