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Hilary Mantel

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Wolf Hall: Author Hilary Mantel talks Tudors and Thomas Cromwell. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ashton Court, Bristol

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Smuggling’s heyday in Bristol and beyond. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Thomas Cromwell

Tudor

Thomas Cromwell: The rise and fall of Henry VIII’s henchman

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Old news: A tiger braves the mean streets of east London

Soldiers guard England's south coast behind a bank of banned wire on 2 September 1940

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Britain's fight for survival: Fortress Britain 1940. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Q&AHas anyone ever died of laughter?

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17th-century 'Great British Bake Off' recipes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Top five hauntings in history

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The bloody world of Georgian female boxing. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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First World War

Q&AWas the British army ready for war in 1914?

Victorian

Q&AWhy do we say 'saved by the bell'?

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Top 10 Tudor stories

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Quiz - Would you have been accepted to join the army and fight in WW1 in August 1914?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kathryn Ferry, UK seaside expert in Hastings, East Sussex

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History explorer: The interwar holiday revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A colour image of military guns during World War One

First World WargalleryThe First World War in colour

Panic ensues in this depiction of the Peterloo Massacre, published in 1819. (The art archive/Getty Images)

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Why were there so few casualties at Peterloo?

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Q&AIs the Bakewell tart really from Bakewell?

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Janice Hadlow"The picture of George III’s family is often sad – these are genuinely thwarted lives". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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10 tips for surviving on the home front during the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of a Tudor street

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“Mooke, fylthe and other vyle things”: Tudor dirt and dung. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Trees and snow. Photo taken by British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews as part of her series focussing on the locations at which individuals were shot during the First World War.

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Shot at dawn: the First World War soldiers executed for desertion and cowardice. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Alfred The Great's statue designed by Hamo Thornycroft and erected in 1899 stands at the eastern end of the Broadway in Winchester, Hampshire, England. (Photo by Tony Baggett/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

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Q&AHow many English kings were known as ‘the Great’?

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The Mill: behind the scenes of the new series

A letter-writer depicted by Janez Subic, c1878. (© Getty)

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The great Victorian letter swindle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Richard III.

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Inside the mind of Richard III. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Crowds in Coronation Park, Delhi, celebrate the coronation of King George V in 1911. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The LibraryDid Britain make the modern world?

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The World War Two French resistance and British holidays. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

William Kent, a Yorkshire-born artist and architect

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History explorer: The English landscape garden. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An oil painting by John Cleveley The Elder depicting the Royal Naval Dockyard

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The quest for longitude: the men who mapped the surface of the earth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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History teachers' body reacts to Michael Gove's education secretary replacement

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