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The Tower of London. More than 30 inmates successfully broke out of the royal fortress between the 12th and 18th centuries. (Photo by Tetra Images/Getty Images)

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How to escape from the Tower of London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American golfer Bobby Jones practising his swing on the roof of the Savoy Hotel in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

20th Century

My history hero: Robert Tyre Jones (1902–71)

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Theological debate

Victorian

How far could a person expect to travel in a single day on horseback or in a stagecoach?

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Dangerous fruit

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The Eidophusikon

Francisco Pizarro seizing the Inca of Peru John Everett Millais. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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A big day in history: Francisco Pizarro's tiny Spanish army takes a mighty Incan leader hostage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Night Piece

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Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-forgotten Europe

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Philospher and scholar

A portrait of King Edward III. By using his offspring as pawns in a series of alliances, the king hoped to wield power over a confederation of dependent states bound together by feudal and family ties. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

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King Edward III: the family man. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The new hearing aid

English soldiers in the ruins of Palmyre in charge of taking over the Syrian Territory occupied by Vichy’s France. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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The untold Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Clarence Harry Willcock MP, who refused to show his identity card to a policeman, 13 June 1951. (Photo by Walter Bellamy/Express/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Clarence Willcock. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

View towards Steel Rigg from Hadrian's Wall in Northumbria. (Photo by VisitBritain/Rod Edwards via Getty Images)

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History explorer: Early Roman Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Jonty Clark

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Ye olde travel guide: Kiev 978 AD. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A second petition of 800,000 signatures, protesting against the abolition of the basic petrol ration, being presented to the House of Commons, 10 December 1947. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

General Modern

E-petitions: in the name of the people?

A scene from the Chronique de St Denis depicting the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII of France, 1137. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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An A to Z of the Plantagenets. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Period

What are the origins of saluting?

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Waiting at the church

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Teeth and jaw are earliest Homo sapien remains

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British and Maori conflicts

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If I ran the country, I’d throw Halloween on the bonfire

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Religious differences

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Matilda: William the Conqueror’s queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Perilous Glory: The Rise of Western Military Power

British microbiologist and discoverer of penicillin, Alexander Fleming. (Photo by Ipsumpix/Corbis via Getty Images)

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A big day in history: Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Looking for bugs

Anti-capitalist graffiti referencing the Nike slogan ‘Just Do It’. Mayday riots, London, 2001. (Photo by PYMCA/UIG via Getty Images)

General Modern

Opinion: should historians comment on current affairs?

Medieval

Magna Carta

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