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The Alfred Jewel: gold, rock, crystal and enamel

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Objects of affection

A portrait of Oliver Cromwell

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Putting words into Cromwell’s mouth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sunbathers enjoy some fun and games at a tennis court near a lido at Castle Mill, Cheshire, August 1936

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The 1930s: When the future looked bright. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

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Peaceful war: was the 19th century a time of relative peace?

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Obesity and the modern lifestyle: what can we learn from history?

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Historians ignore the human element at their peril

Arundel castle at dawn

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Where history happened: Stephen and Matilda. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A History of Arctic Exploration

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A World by Itself

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Searching for Order

Some household cures would aim to rebalance the body's humours

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Household medicine: sickness, salves and skillets. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Russian and Polish women liberated from a forced labour camp

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Voices of the Holocaust. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Allan Pinkerton

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Allan Pinkerton: The eye that never slept. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of the compound microscope used by British inventor and microbiologist Robert Hooke

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An experimental society. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Broadcaster Simon Mayo

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My history hero: William Trevelyan Richards. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A Question of Memory

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Book review – The English Marriage

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We’re still waiting for school history’s next big idea

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The lesser-spotted postbox

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When was the first mosque in Britain built?

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Boyle: Between God and Science

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Ten things to do in… January

Lewis Chessmen found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, probably made in Norway, about AD 1150-1200. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

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The LibraryObjects with meanings: How artefacts can give us a new take on global history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Racism by omission. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Image of the Lindisfarne Stone from Holy Island, Northumbria. It shows seven warriors, possibly vikings. The Vikings’ first recorded raid on Lindisfarne took place in AD 793. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Why did the Vikings' violent raids begin?

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Land Girls and their Impact

Ministry Of Information First World War Official Collection

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Food and drink on the Somme frontline: the soldier experience. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Katterfelto: Prince of Puff

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Heart Beguiling Araby

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Conspiracy theories are everywhere

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