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Banqueting House, London, where Charles I was executed on 30 January 1649. (Photo by Angelo Hornak/Corbis via Getty Images)

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9 places associated with Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ten things to do in … December

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A people’s charter for the outdoors

Evening light sweeps over the ruins of the Jesuit mission church at Trinidad de Paraná, Paraguay, where the bell tower of the site's first of two churches stands. Scores of Jesuit missions in the area where Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet were built in the 17th century and were abandoned when the Jesuits were expelled in the 18th century. (Photo by Kevin Moloney via Getty Images)

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Jesuit missionaries: “a masterpiece of humanity”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Commander Mansfield Smith-Cumming (later head of the British Secret Service), Professor Redwood and Bernard Redwood at the Motor Yacht Club Reliability Trials on Southampton Water, 1907. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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First World War spooks. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Detail from the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, showing hawking. Made in Tournai in the 15th century. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The LibraryThe medieval huntress. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Blood, Iron & Gold

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The Red Prince

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The Red Flag

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The Great British Bobby

The Holy Face by Andrei Rublev. Tempera on wood, 14th century. Moscow, Russia. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

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The mutation of Christianity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ten things to do in . . . November

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New face for oldest museum

‘Battle of Quiberon Bay' (c1765), from 'Old Naval Prints' by Charles N Robinson and Geoffrey Holme (The Studio Limited, London), 1924. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The battle for Britain 1759. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A statue of Lenin in Germany being removed from its plinth to be demolished. (Photo by Régis BOSSU/Sygma via Getty Images)

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Looking back at The End of History

Portrait of Captain William Bligh. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

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My history hero: William Bligh (1754–1817). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Transport minister Ernest Marples on a road bridge near the London end of the newly opened M1 motorway, 2 November 1959. (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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The first day on the M1. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of Belgian refugees fleeing upon the arrival of German troops on the roads, 21 June 1940. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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The war grave warriors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Gaol

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The Briggers

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When does history end?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Glamour: A History

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A bridge too far. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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October is the cruellest month (in history teaching, at least)

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The Siege of Jerusalem: Crusade and Conquest in 1099

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Making immigration work for Britain: what can we learn from history?

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From William Pitt to American football

Andrew Marr pictured in London in July 2015. (Photo by Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images)

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Andrew Marr on the making of modern Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sir Robert Peel Monument in Piccadilly Gardens, London. (Photo by P A Thompson via Getty Images)

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Horrible history teaching with Terry Deary. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Replenishing the Earth

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