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A painting depicts a 14th-century sea battle

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Medieval inspiration: what the fantasy genre owes to the 14th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

To the point: soldiers prepare themselves for hand-to-hand combat by learning bayonet skills. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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The road to D-Day: the masterplan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Tudor rose on a wooden ceiling beam.

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Monarchy and faith in Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Image of the Lindisfarne Stone from Holy Island, Northumbria. It shows seven warriors, possibly vikings. The Vikings’ first recorded raid on Lindisfarne took place in AD 793. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Your guide to the Viking raid of Lindisfarne in AD 793

Live Aid stage at Wembley, London, in 1985

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When Live Aid rocked the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The first state visit by American President George W Bush in 2003 was highly controversial, attracting protesters opposed to the involvement of the United States and Britain in the Iraq War. Here the president is pictured with the Queen in 2008. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)

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From pageantry to controversy: a brief history of state visits. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Between 1613 and 1754, a legal loophole meant that on-the-spot marriages could be carried out in an area surrounding the Fleet Debtors’ Prison known as the ‘Liberties of the Fleet’. (Photo by Getty Images)

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10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of London

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Rachel Reeves on women who changed politics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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D-Day: a resounding success for the Allies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 19th-century painted glass rolling pin and wooden pastry jigger. (Photo ©Emma Kay)

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Biscuit tins and pastry jiggers: the history of 6 baking tools. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jacob Rees-Mogg. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Jacob Rees-Mogg on the Victorians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men enjoying a drink and a chat in a coffee house, 1674. Coffee houses became known as ‘schools of the wise’, where people would gossip, argue and discuss the breaking news of the day. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A drink for the devil: 8 facts about the history of coffee

Peasants in the Middle Ages at a cattle market. Cows appear to have been difficult to manage in the medieval period, and caused several deaths. (Photo by INTERFOTO /Alamy)

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5 strange causes of death in the medieval period. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1960s model. (Photo by Alamy)

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Women in the 1960s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What was it like meeting Queen Victoria? 6 royal encounters as told by famous Victorians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of household servants photographed in Northumberland, c1860–80. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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What was life like as a 19th-century servant?

Gentleman Jack, Suranne Jones as Anne Lister (Photo by BBC/Lookout Point/Jay Brooks)

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After her recovery from smallpox, Queen Elizabeth I started using a ceruse foundation on her face, neck and chest. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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5 weird habits of royals through history

British troops learn to swim in full kit on a training course in May 1944. "A blind man could see something big was about to happen," said one soldier. (Image by Getty Images)

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D-Day: why the training was deadlier than the assault. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 1954 illustration of a woman wearing nylons. Lightweight, easy to conceal and fiercely sought after, stockings were a favourite with smugglers. (Photo by Bridgeman)

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Nylon pirates: the postwar craze for cut-price stockings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 16th-century woodcut by Albrecht Dürer entitled 'The true and false apostles of Christ'. As the Reformation recast Europe's spiritual landscape, many believers fretted that their religion no longer felt true to them. (Photo by Alamy)

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The fury that fuelled the rise of atheism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian and geographer Jared Diamond

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Books interview with Jared Diamond: “With countries, as with people, crises attract attention”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry, who would would later accede to the throne as Henry VIII, as a baby. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Young Henry VIII: the boy who would be king

Great Pyramid of Giza. Egypt. (Photo by Olgakostenko | Dreamstime.com)

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10 of the most surprising numbers in history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Marc Morris at BBC History Magazine's 2017 History Weekend (Photo by Steve Sayers)

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Secrets of Britain’s castles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill making the famed ‘V’ for Victory sign. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

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Winston Churchill facts: 9 things you might not know about the WW2 prime minister

Jim Sturgess as George Boleyn and Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn. in the film 'The Other Boleyn Girl' (2008) (Photo by Alamy)

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The rise and fall of the Boleyns. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The name Archie was originally a nickname for Archibald, which derived from the Anglo-Saxon name Eorconbeald, and the Old High German name Erchenbald, says Carolyn Harris. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor: the history behind the royal baby name. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Edward IV, who used the surname Plantagenet. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Q&AWhen did British kings and queens start using surnames?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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