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An aerial view of the River Brathay winding through the Lake District landscape towards Elter Water, surrounded by green fields and woodland. Sunlight illuminates the hills and colourful foliage, with mountains rising beneath clouds in the distance.

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The second Norman conquest: how William Rufus captured a forgotten kingdom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part of a 19th-century letter (Photo by whitemay/Getty)

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Agony and adventure: the hidden histories inside women's diaries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tituba of Salem, in a 19th-century illustration (Photo by The Granger Collection/Alamy)

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5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the history of witchcraft. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alan Bates (played by Toby Jones) in the TV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office (Photo by ITV Plc)

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The Post Office scandal: the history behind the British institution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Butter, Milk, Eggs And Beef

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QuizHistorical food. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Credit: Bridgeman Images

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Sex, sadism and sugared death: 8 scandals that rocked Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Votive altar with relief decoration showing procession of servants

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The Invisible Romans: how the brutal lives of the enslaved shaped an empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Zeinab Badawi (Photo by Jamie Simonds)

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Zeinab Badawi on writing the history of a whole continent | “It is important to look at African history through the lens of African people themselves”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

OJ Simpson confers with lawyers during his murder trial

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What the OJ Simpson trial revealed about modern America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Question mark on green background.

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QuizWhich woman from history said this?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroSteve Backshall chooses Alfred Russel Wallace. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 19th-century portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb, Anglo-Irish aristocrat, novelist and lover of Lord Byron, by English painter Thomas Phillips (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Lady Caroline Lamb: Antonia Fraser on a rule-breaking aristocrat. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shakespeare, depicted in a later image based on a contemporary portrait

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Race, love & money: 8 Shakespeare plays that reveal the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A diorama of London houses, churches and shops carved into the walls of Wellclose Gaol

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Georgian art attack: graffiti in 18th-century Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American Gothic by Grant Wood

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QuizArt decades. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ben Willbond as Henry VIII

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“It’s rare that a television show actually changes people’s lives”: 15 years of Horrible Histories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British author Sathnam Sanghera poses for a photograph in Hampstead

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Sathnam Sanghera on the legacy of empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Lord Byron: 9 objects that defined the infamous poet's life and story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A statue of Thutmosis III

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Ancient armageddon: the battle of Megiddo that led to the rise of a great warrior-pharaoh. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of supposed witches being beaten in front of King James I and VI

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Why was King James VI and I obsessed with witch hunts?

Hamida Djandoubi, 28, being led down a tunnel by a police official ahead of his execution in October 1977.

General History

10 strange historical facts that sound fake

Margaret Beaufort, shown in a c16th‐century oil on panel painting

Medieval

Margaret Beaufort: mother of the Tudors

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Is the Eastern Front the forgotten theatre of World War One?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jonah being devoured by a whale

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QuizMedieval manuscript animals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Hell in Italy: the Allies' hardest fight of WW2?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black and white sunset at Westminster abbey with the Big Ben backlit taken in may before starting the repair works at the tower.

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QuizPolitics

A horse ambulance in the 19th century, and (inset, above) an advert for an RSPCA fund for horses. The number of beasts of burden working in cities rose rapidly in the Victorian era. (Photo by Alamy)

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Beastly Victorians: the 19th-century fight for animal rights. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroAnthony Horowitz chooses Colin Gubbins. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Lear

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QuizHistorical misconceptions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sepia image of workers at a Lancashire cotton mill

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How people with learning disabilities thrived in the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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