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17 unmissable battles podcasts

Tixall Gatehouse, Staffordshire. (Photo by The Landmark Trust)

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10 of Britain’s most amazing landmark buildings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Oliver Cromwell. This is one of several replicas of a portrait by Sir Peter Lely. Cromwell is supposed to have said: “I desire you would use all your skill to paint your picture truly like me… but remark all these roughness, pimples, warts and everything as you see me. Otherwise, I will never pay a farthing for it.”

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Why do we say 'warts and all'?

Black and white image depicting engraving of Julius Caesar.

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Q&AWhat is the earliest evidence for a battle in Britain?

Patricia Simmons recording the speaking clock.

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Q&AWho voiced the original speaking clock?

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Great British eccentrics: 7 of the most peculiar people in history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Brontës and a revolutionary artist. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Suffragette: ‘a moving and inspiring film that must be seen’

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A brief history of Royal Navy search & rescue 1915–2015. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of King Henry VIII

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History heroNathaniel Parker chooses Henry VIII (1491-1547). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ruthven Barracks

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The LibraryHistory Explorer: The Jacobite uprisings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of the Georgian underclass

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The power of the Georgian underclass

Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh

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Simon Schama's portraits of a nation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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New views on the Holocaust and 1980s Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Battle of Culloden. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Scottish history: 9 steps from Union to Referendum. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How significant is Scotland’s ‘No’ vote? Historians debate

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The Somme and the Jacobites. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Black Market camera seller

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Criminals of the Blitz: how the German bombings created a golden age of crime. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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7 Victorian recipes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hurricane fighter planes taking off from Gravesend after being refuelled and rearmed, during the Battle of Britain. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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The Battle of Britain: a brilliant triumph that involved far more than just the chosen few. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Norwich castle

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History explorer: The Norman conquest. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II

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How to be a successful monarch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A mob sets fire to Newgate Prison during the Gordon Riots

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Taxing Catholics: how one Georgian government targeted a religious community. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The mahogany wooden interior of the Glasgow School of Art

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My history hero: Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Calendars of the twelve months (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Medieval immigrants: moving to England in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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In pictures: The Blitz

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Far From the Madding Crowd: an interview with Ruth Goodman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill with a bulldog mascot as he leaves the Wanstead Conservative Club in his Woodford, Essex constituency on general election day, 23 February 1950. (Photo by Central Press/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Q&AWhat is the significance of the British Bulldog?

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A 'full English' breakfast

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Q&AWhy is a fry-up breakfast called a ‘full English’?

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