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Anglo-Saxon thegns

Norman

Q&AWho was Eadnoth the Staller?

20th Century

My history heroAshley John-Baptiste chooses Walter Tull

Swathes of Tokyo lie in ruins after the Great Kantō Earthquake on 1 September 1923

20th Century

The Great Kantō earthquake: a 1923 disaster that left Tokyo in ruins

Painting depicting the Spanish Armada

Tudor

Keep calm and carry on trading: how English merchants reacted to the Spanish Armada

Martin Luther King speaks in front of microphones, during the March on Washtington

20th Century

"I Have A Dream": the speech that America couldn’t ignore

Roman

What can the streets of Pompeii reveal about daily life in ancient Rome?

King Arthur and his knights return to Camelot (Photo by: Christophel Fine Art/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Medieval

Q&AWhere was Camelot?

An illustration titled 'The first match of the British Ladies Football Club'

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A brief history of women’s football: from Mary, Queen of Scots to the FIFA Women’s World Cup. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A relief on Trajan's Column shows Roman troops crossing the Danube during the war against the Dacians. Victory was the framework upon which Pax Romana was built (Photo by akg-images/Erich Lessing)

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The Pax Romana: how the Romans maintained peace at the point of a sword. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Joya Chatterji, emeritus professor in the history of modern south Asia at the University of Cambridge (Photo by Abhishek Bali)

20th Century

Joya Chatterji on 20th-century south Asia“The nation is a very novel idea, and imposing it on millions of people is hard work”

Images of Sidi Mubarak Bombay

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Sidi Mubarak Bombay: the unsung African adventurer behind the European explorers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroJulia Quinn chooses Harriet Tubman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Civil Rights themed week banner

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US civil rights movement5 landmark events. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roger Mortimer and Isabella of France shown with their army in a 15th-century illustration. In the background, the body of Edward II’s favourite, Hugh le Despenser, is being quartered (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

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Roger Mortimer: the rebel baron who escaped the Tower to challenge Edward II. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A boy signs a petition against slavery (bottom left) in an 1826 satirical cartoon originally titled 'John Bull Taking a Clear View on the Negro Slavery Question', by R Cruikshank (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

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The children who fought for the abolition of slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Still from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), directed by Steven Spielberg (Photo by Allstar Picture Library Limited/Alamy Stock Photo)

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“Nasa has finally been dragged back into the UFO debate”: David Clarke on the history of flying saucers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A view of the devastation caused by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan on 6 August 1945, a bombed-out building in the foreground

Second World War

What happened to Hiroshima after it was bombed in 1945? How many people died?

The head and upper body of a monumental statue of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, which has been exhibited at the British Museum, London, since the 19th century (Photo by World History Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Was Ramesses II the greatest pharaoh of ancient Egypt?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Simon Schama, 2015 (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

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Simon Schama“Humans are a marvel of ingenuity, yet we seem to exist in this great pond of primitive terror and paranoia”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Hugh Cowling

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Artificial intelligence: a modern advance or an ancient nightmare?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Napoleon Bonaparte depicted as emperor of France in c1804. By now he had his sights set on establishing a dynasty (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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How Napoleon (almost) destroyed the French Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 1569 portrait, thought to be of Helena Snakenborg (Photo by Alamy Stock Photo)

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The Tudor travel bug: 6 artefacts that show the Tudors’ taste for travel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Margaret of Anjou, seated besides King Henry VI of England, is presented a book in a contemporary illumination (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty)

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Margaret of Anjou: the 'she-wolf' queen who wouldn’t go quietly. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A man winces as he receives a flu vaccination

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How Britain fell in love with the NHS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gussie Moran playing tennis with her lace knickers on show at the 1949 Wimbledon Championships.

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10 scandalous moments in Wimbledon’s history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A gear wheel in the Antikythera mechanism, an analogue computer created by ancient Greeks that forms the basis for the Archimedes Dial in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

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The real Archimedes Dial? The Antikythera mechanism explained

The 16th-century painting, Triumph of Death, by Jan Brueghel the Elder depicts an army of skeletons ravaging the Earth (Photo by akg-images)

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6 moments when diseases drastically altered human history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Japanese soldiers and sailors disembark at Vladivostok, 22 August 1918. Of all the foreign interventions into the Russian civil war, the one from Japan was by far the largest, growing to 70,000 troops. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Britain’s Russian fiasco: Allied intervention in the Russian civil war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jai Singh II (third from left) built astronomical observatories across northern India in the 18th century, incorporating knowledge he’d sourced everywhere from China to Portugal (Photo by Dinodia Photos/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Why the scientific revolution was far from just a European phenomenon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of men reading the news aboard the HMT Empire Windrush on arrival at Tilbury in Essex, 22nd June 1948.

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The forgotten history of Windrush. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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