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The Persians: empire of the greats. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What was it like being a renter in Georgian London?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Interregnum: Britain's republican decade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

9 places where British astronomy flourished. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

England's greatest royal rebel: why the Duke of Monmouth was a 17th-century hero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Caratacus: Roman Britain’s greatest rebel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why we should remember…How Chanel No 5 revolutionised the beauty business. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Dudley dynasty: the family behind the Tudors

What happened to Colonel Thomas Blood?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why we should remember…Target Zero Day. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Matilda of Boulogne: Norman England’s warrior queen

Kris Manjapra“Black communities have had to pay for the failures of emancipation”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why we should remember…the translation of Anne Frank’s diary. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWhy did Pablo Picasso paint Guernica?

Second World War

The bombing of Guernica: who was responsible?

BBC at 100Captivating little citizens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Anatomy of Melancholy: how Robert Burton helped shape our understanding of the mind. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AIs it true that Pepsi briefly owned Soviet warships?

Feather beds, cockfights and midnight flights to the moon: 5 fascinating chapters in avian history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How accurate are the most famous films about Titanic?

Kavita Puri“It’s important to document ordinary lives as well as changing political and social contexts”

The real Gentleman Jack: the secret life of Anne Lister, Britain's ‘first modern lesbian’

Elizabeth of York: a Tudor of rare talent

Animals in space: the creatures who paved the way for human travel beyond Earth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Benjamin Franklin: from British patriot to American hero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Christopher de Bellaigue“Suleyman was just as bellicose as his father, if not as gratuitously cruel”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oxford v Cambridge: A history of the boat race

Is the future of Nato under threat?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The magnificent moai – facts about the statues of Rapa Nui

What happened to the people of Rapa Nui?

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