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1942: Churchill's darkest hour. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland. (Loop Images/UIG via Getty Images)

Roman

Hadrian's Wall: when and why was it built? A brief guide

A drawing of a Georgian woman in a wide dress and a towering wig

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How to survive in the Georgian court. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire. (Photo by Archimage/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Through the keyhole: how the finest mansions in Georgian Britain were furnished. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 16th-century portrait of Bess of Hardwick. Bess's talent, ambition and eye for a well-connected husband elevated her to dizzying levels of wealth and power in Tudor England. (Photo by Bridgeman Art Library)

Tudor

Bess of Hardwick: schemer, social climber, scourge of Elizabeth I

A woman holds a pitchfork in an image from a recruitment poster for the Women’s Land Army, 1940s.

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Dig for Victory: Britain's WW2 war on hunger. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Chinese Red Guards

20th Century

The Gordons: Prisoners of the Cultural Revolution

Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, illustrated sitting on a throne

Anglo-Saxon

Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians: the warrior queen who crushed the Vikings

Suspected witch Mary Sutton is “swum” in a Bedfordshire millpond in 1612, as shown in a contemporary illustration. (Picture by Getty Images)

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Witchfinding: what drove the hunters’ cruel crusade and what methods did they use?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Neil MacGregor is a broadcaster, author and former director of the British Museum

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Neil MacGregor"We decide for ourselves who we think we are – and museums are central to that". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English pilot Amy Johnson sat in a plane and wearing a helmet

20th Century

'Queen of the Air': the remarkable life of pioneering English aviator Amy Johnson

A portrait of Caroline of Ansbach

Georgian

Caroline of Ansbach: why George II's remarkable queen was the first iron lady of British politics

Illustration of folkloric beings

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A history of Britain's folklore. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Nixon in China: a week that changed the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A marble bust of the Roman Emperor Claudius

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Roman invasion of Britain: did the Britons ignore them?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German soldiers watch a farmhouse they have burned during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941

Second World War

The eastern front in WW2: how it all went wrong for the Germans

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Your guide to Britain’s prehistoric stone circles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An old man penetrating the earth's firmament to see the workings of the universe beyond

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A brief history of astronomy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A panorama of the man-made Neolithic structure Silbury Hill in Wiltshire

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ExploreSilbury Hill & Avebury, the site of Neolithic Britons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photo of Stonehenge with plains in the background

General prehistory

Secrets of StonehengeWhen & how was it built?

James Hamilton's 1880s painting 'The Massacre of Glencoe'.

Stuart

Hell at Glencoe: what led to the massacre in the Scottish Highlands?

A portrait of King Charles I

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Jane Whorwood: the royalists' secret weapon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lettice Knollys

Tudor

A Tudor love triangle: Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley

A lobbycard for the 1923 film Is Conan Doyle Right? (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images)

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The supernatural interests of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Stuart, shown here in a painting after Nicholas Hilliard, might have been a good queen, says Kate Williams, but the odds were stacked against her. (Image by Superstock)

Elizabethan

Who betrayed Mary, Queen Of Scots?

An oil on panel portrait of Elizabeth Woodville

Plantagenet

Elizabeth Woodville: Edward IV’s controversial queen consort

A replica of St Edward’s Crown, used in the coronation of British rulers since 1661

General History

Who is Britain’s greatest monarch?

Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian, by Jacob Marrel, 1679 (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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Maria Sibylla Merian: the artist who challenged the natural world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark and the first Viking king of England (Photo by Getty)

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How Sweyn Forkbeard became the first Viking king of England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 19th-century lithograph showing a medieval criminal claiming sanctuary by placing his arm through the ring on a church door (Picture by Bridgman)

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Sanctuary in medieval churches: how criminals found protection from capture and punishment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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