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Turning points1956: The shock of Suez. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Turning points1916: The long march to modernity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Turning points1851: The Crystal Palace. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Turning points1832: The ‘Great’ Reform Act. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Turning points1776: The year of American independence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Turning points1745: The Jacobite rebellion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Turning points1662: Restoration tragedy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Turning points1638: The Scottish Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Spanish Armada which threatened England in July 1588. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Turning points1588: The Spanish Armada. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543). (Photo by: PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

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Turning points1534: Henry VIII declares his ‘empire’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part ten in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1450–1499

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Turning points1483: Richard grabs the throne. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Watercolor Painting Depicting Battle of Agincourt (Photo by © Historical Picture Archive/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Turning points1415: The battle of Agincourt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 in England began in Brentwood, Essex as a protest at the collection of poll tax and reached a climax at Smithfield, London. Richard II (1367-1800) met the Kentish peasants who, under Watt Tyler (d1381), were demanding the end of serfdom. During the meeting William Walworth (d1385) Lord Mayor of London, wounded Wat Tyler who was taken to St Bartholomew's Hospital but was later dragged out of the hospital and beheaded. 19th century lithograph. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Turning points1381: The Peasants’ Revolt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Turning points1348: The Black Death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part six in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1200–1249

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Turning points1295: Edward I consolidates English rule. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part five in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1250–1299

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Turning points1215: Magna Carta. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part four in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1150–1199

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Turning points1171: The English invasion of Ireland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part three in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1100–1149

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Turning points1141: Stephen v Matilda. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part two in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1050–1099

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Turning points1066: The year of four kings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part one in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1000–1049

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Turning points1016: The Danish conquest of England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lindsay Duncan, who plays aristocratic adventurer Jane Digby in the BBC One adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days

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Jane Digby: Lindsay Duncan on playing the aristocratic adventurer in Around the World in 80 Days

This print from 1807 shows John Bull sat between the rival singers Elizabeth Billington (left) and Angelica Catalani, who sing lines adapted from The Beggar’s Opera.

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Sex, lies and arias: the prima donnas of Georgian London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vintners in an ale house, 1642. From a broadsheet titled ‘Health to All’, artist unknown. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas? The Puritan assault on Christmas during the 1640s and 1650s

Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin. (Getty Images)

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Did a British agent murder Rasputin?

Three medieval carol singers, image dated 1911

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Christmas carols: the history behind 9 festive favourites

St Columba. This Irish patron saint's influence on the Christian church was, and still is, felt much further afield

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Medieval miracle worker: how St Columba transformed Christianity in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What happened to Britain’s lost Roman legion?

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Anna Whitelock's Talking PointsFriends or enemies?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tom Smith's Surprise Cosaques, Christmas Crackers 1878. (Image by Getty)

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The history of Christmas crackers

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Emma Dabiri“He dreamed a career that seemed impossible and made it a reality”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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