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A member of staff at a food bank

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What centuries of cost-of-living crises can reveal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cultural historian Christopher Harding

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Christopher Harding“Europeans have been obsessed with the east’s spiritual depths since Alexander the Great”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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MacDonald's leap to power: the story of the first Labour government. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of a crow chasing a silhouette of a man running away in the distance

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The supernatural signs that unmasked murderers in early modern England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

: SS soldiers with Jewish people before their execution at Babyn Yar. “Each of these murders took place face to face. It was an intimate and barbaric process,” writes James Bulgin. (Photo by YAD VASHEM ARCHIVES)

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How the holocaust began. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Statue of William Wallace in Aberdeen

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Traitor or FaithfulBritish history's most notorious treason cases

Our illustration shows a woman struggling through wind and snow in 1816 (Illustration by Zara Picken)

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1816: the year without summer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A fight between two Gladiators, in mosaic

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What were the lives of gladiators like in ancient Rome?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Royal Pavilion in Brighton

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Visiting Brighton Royal Pavilion, the Prince Regent's decadent getaway. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A statue of Alice Nutter, one of the 1612 Pendle Witches. The statue is in her home village on Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. (Image by Alamy)

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The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial?

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My history heroEd Davey chooses Æthelstan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Amazing livesNicholas Winton: the British Schindler

King George III

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The illness and decline of King George III. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An ink drawing of a London 'rag fair' where old clothes and textiles were traded, c1800

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Regency inequality: the gap between rich and poor in Georgian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait and a cartoon of George III

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The two sides of George IV: is his wretched reputation deserved?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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ThinkpieceThe long death of the Roman republic. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alice Mitchell stabs her lover, Freda Ward, to death, shown in a contemporary illustration. A court declared that the killing was an act of insanity.

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Victorian murder scandalsWhat six killings tell us about women's lives in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The future Queen Victoria, aged four

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Queen Victoria's unhappy childhood: life under the 'Kensington System'

A painting of a partially clothed man (wearing shorts, and an open shirt) reclining on a bed.

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The new radicals: how the Bloomsbury Group transformed British culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration showing protesters dressed as Native Americans emptying the contents of crates of tea from an East India Company ship into Boston harbour

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The brutality behind the Boston Tea Party. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Deborah Meaden and Lady Hester Stanhope

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My history heroDeborah Meaden chooses Lady Hester Stanhope. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American suffragettes picket a building

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The global legacy of the Boston Tea Party. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This illustration shows “Boston boys throwing tea into the harbour” on 16 December 1773

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Boston Tea Party: your guide to the protest that ignited a revolution

A colourful illustration showing crusaders storm Jerusalem using a huge siege tower

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The crusade against the odds: how the First Crusade succeeded despite the obstacles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, in the Tower of London as imagined in Paul Delaroche’s 1852 painting.

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Philippa Langley on the Princes in the Tower: “It was clear we had to consider the possibility that they survived”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

10 Downing Street, the residence of the prime minister of the United Kingdom. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The ex factor: why David Cameron’s return isn’t unprecedented. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Matilda of Scotland: the queen behind the veil. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

David Mitchell. (Photo by PAL HANSEN-GUARDIAN-EYEVINE)

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David Mitchell on England's monarchy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte to Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise

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Napoleon’s other wife: who was Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise?

An illustration of pilgrims on horseback.

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The A to B of medieval travel: 8 tips for travelling in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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