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Half-sisters and daughters of Henry VIII: Mary Tudor (left) and Elizabeth I, who both reigned as queen of England. (Photos by Getty Images)

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Sisters at war: Mary I and Elizabeth I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Death on the canal: inside a Victorian crimewave. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of wartime evacuees take time to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, flipping pancakes in the air

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Shrove Tuesday historyWhy do we eat pancakes?

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Regency Masterclass, with Dr Lizzie Rogers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

HEX Academy Vikings - week one video

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Viking raiders, with Professor Ryan Lavelle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Regency quiz – week four. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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MacDonald's leap to power: the story of the first Labour government. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The supernatural signs that unmasked murderers in early modern England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Scottish poet Robert Burns

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Robert Burns: 7 facts about the life and work of Scotland's national bard

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Harold Godwinson: the story of the last Anglo-Saxon king of England

General Andrew Jackson (on horseback) led US forces to victory over the British at the battle of New Orleans on 8 January 1815 (Photo by Pierce Archive LLC/Buyenlarge via Getty Images)

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Regency Britain: An age of war and revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Employees operate power looms at a cotton mill in Lancashire (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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Reading between the lines: the real-life events that inspired Jane Austen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Statue of William Wallace in Aberdeen

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Traitor or FaithfulBritish history's most notorious treason cases

Our illustration shows a woman struggling through wind and snow in 1816 (Illustration by Zara Picken)

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1816: the year without summer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Regency parson officiates at a wedding ceremony in a country church, 1820

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How to survive a Regency marriage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Royal Pavilion in Brighton

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Visiting Brighton Royal Pavilion, the Prince Regent's decadent getaway. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Regency gentleman greets a row of ladies

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Everything you wanted to know about Jane Austen's England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A statue of Alice Nutter, one of the 1612 Pendle Witches. The statue is in her home village on Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. (Image by Alamy)

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The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial?

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QuizIntroduction to the Regency. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Author Jane Austen and the Prince Regent

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Regency timelinethe key dates you need to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King George III

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The illness and decline of King George III. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An ink drawing of a London 'rag fair' where old clothes and textiles were traded, c1800

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Regency inequality: the gap between rich and poor in Georgian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait and a cartoon of George III

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The two sides of George IV: is his wretched reputation deserved?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The medieval Welsh Marches: identity on the frontier. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alice Mitchell stabs her lover, Freda Ward, to death, shown in a contemporary illustration. A court declared that the killing was an act of insanity.

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Victorian murder scandalsWhat six killings tell us about women's lives in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The future Queen Victoria, aged four

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Queen Victoria's unhappy childhood: life under the 'Kensington System'

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A Christmas feastThree historical festive recipes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Still shows Iain De Caestecker as Arthur Pendragon in The Winter King

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How The Winter King brings Arthurian Britain to life

A painting of a partially clothed man (wearing shorts, and an open shirt) reclining on a bed.

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The new radicals: how the Bloomsbury Group transformed British culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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