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Kathleen Kenyon challenged biblical accounts with her pioneering work at the ancient city of Jericho. (Photo by Bettmann/contributor via Getty Images)

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My history hero: Kathleen Kenyon (1906–78). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Douglas Haig (right) watches the stamping of poppies by ex-servicemen, during a visit to the British Legion poppy factory in Richmond, 22 October 1926. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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The LibraryDouglas Haig: a postwar revolutionary?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I’s ‘spymaster’. (Photo by Photo 12/UIG via Getty Images)

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Sir Francis Walsingham: spy-master extraordinaire and Elizabeth I’s security chief. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vasily Grossman with the Red Army in Schwerin, Germany, 1945. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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A war of words. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Jonty Clark

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Ye olde travel guide: Venice 1500. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

View across the river Clyde to Dumbarton Rock and the medieval Dumbarton Castle. (Photo by Martin W Holt via Getty Images)

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History explorer: Alfred and the Vikings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Was Britain the only country to use children to sweep chimneys?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Clever Tom Clinch

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All history lies to us, but at least historical fiction admits it

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The BBC Story

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Dead Sea Scrolls online

The front page of the first edition of The Sun newspaper. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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A big day in history: The Sun first appeared on shelves in newsagents. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The vegetable plot

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Battle numbers

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Bluestones, like these in the Preseli hills, were used to build Stonehenge. (Photo by Paula Connelly via Getty Images)

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Britain’s buried secrets. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hans Litten (centre) in court while representing communists, 25 August 1932. Litten’s decision to subpoena Hitler a year earlier was to cost him his life. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Hitler in the dock. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A London Missionary Society (LMS) mission in Papua New Guinea, c1920s. (Photo by Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Married to a missionary. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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French celebrity

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To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora, 1750–2010

A stone relief depicting men bringing gifts to the king, c500 BC. (Getty Images)

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The Persian empire: myth vs reality. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history hero: Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In his last official photo, Adolf Hitler leaves the safety of his bunker to award decorations to members of Hitler Youth. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

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Why did the Nazis fight to the death?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Bringing history to life

A portrait of Henry VII in 1505. His claim to the throne was tenuous and he had to see off a posse of pretenders, yet he proved a canny and competent ruler, modernising the justice system and filling the crown’s coffers. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Henry VII: the survivor and stabiliser. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Is public spending elbowing out private endeavour?

A European buyer of enslaved people

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Who started the enslavement of Africans in the Americas?

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The BBC Story

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Poxed and Scurvied

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First books announced

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