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Emily Soldene, actress, writer and rebel

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Emily Soldene: actress, writer, rebel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

London schoolboys on strike, Shoreditch, September 1911. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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Schoolchildren on strike: when pupils demanded shorter hours. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Painting of Bonnie Prince Charlie

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Bonnie Prince Charlie: Scottish superhero or Italian coward?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Luke Waller

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The Pentrich Rising: England's forgotten armed revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC employees at work in the control room at the new home at Broadcasting House (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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BBC at 100Broadcasting House: a new home for the BBC. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A picture of Charles Darwin in his later years

Victorian

Q&ADid Charles Darwin coin the phrase 'survival of the fittest'?

Deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, German officer Paul Schmidt and Adolf Hitler survey damage at Hitler's eastern front military headquarters, ‘the Wolf’s Lair’, hours after a failed bombing attempt by Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Second World War

Should we be glad the 1944 July Plot to kill Hitler failed?

Princess Elizabeth

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Queen Elizabeth II: the constant face of a changing Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cartoon from American satirical magazine Puck, c1885, showing American millionaires playing Monopoly with the country's assets

Victorian

Who were the tycoons of the Gilded Age? Meet the ruthless 'robber barons' who made millions

Queen Victoria in 1861

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Queen of spies? Inside Queen Victoria’s secret intelligence network. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

(Illustration by Glen McBeth for BBC History Magazine)

Victorian

Q&AWhat is the origin and meaning of the pirate expression ‘shiver me timbers’?

Illustration of King Louis IX.

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A king of fire and light: Louis IX's tangled legacy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alfred the Great “managed to ensure history’s enduring affection by making sure that he wrote it himself,” argues Max Adams. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Alfred the Great: "He was an excellent king, but that's not the whole story". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Elizabeth Stuart, painted during the reign of Charles I

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Elizabeth Stuart: the treasonous portrait that touted Charles I's sister for the throne. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British army soldiers face off against a group of Irish civilians

20th Century

Why we should remember…Bloody Sunday

Plan of the island of Utopia, from Thomas More's work of the same name depicting an ideal state

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Thomas More's Utopia – what lessons did it have for Tudor England?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vienna Plague Hospital, 1679. (Getty Images)

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What were women's lives like during the 17th-century plague?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

When were punctuation marks first used? Illustration by Glen McBeth for BBC History Magazine.

General History

Q&AWhen were punctuation marks first used?

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Admiral Lord Nelson: 10 days that created a legend. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

School photo showing rows of children from a Manchester school

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Did Britain really roar in the 1920s?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Neville Chamberlain holds aloft the famous piece of paper at Heston aerodrome on 30 September 1938. (Picture by Alamy)

Second World War

The Munich agreement: a battle with Hitler that almost brought down the government

Neville Chamberlain shows off the Anglo-German Declaration at Heston Aerodrome

Second World War

Q&APeace for our time: what was written on Neville Chamberlain's piece of paper?

Outbreak of dance mania

Medieval

The medieval dancing plague: what caused people to dance themselves to death?

Residents of Palermo, Sicily, line the streets to greet the American Sherman tanks after the town had surrendered to the Allies

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The battle for Sicily: breaking into Fortress Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Emma Dabiri"The Harder They Fall doesn’t engage with one of the main drivers behind the violence". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of BBC staff surround a large piece of broadcasting equipment

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BBC at 100The BBC begins: how a group of radio pioneers launched one of Britain's most famous institutions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in mounted combat

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Richard the Lionheart: king of war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on the Parthenon Sculptures"The case is unique: the sculptures are bound up with Greek identity". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The New Year’s resolutions Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I and Franklin D Roosevelt should have made…. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Beatles pictured in 1969

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The Beatles: 8 landmark moments that chart the changing face of sixties Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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