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"I felt very alone in a world gone horribly mad": the experiences of evacuees in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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England’s forgotten medieval hero: how John, Duke of Bedford carried on Henry V's fight. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 20th-century painting shows John applying his seal to the 1215 charter

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Henry III and the Magna Carta that mattered. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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"Nothing matches being with Alexander the Great on foot in the Hindu Kush". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Jane Austen as a young woman.

Georgian

The real reason Jane Austen never married

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My history heroMary Archer chooses Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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“The reverberations lasted for generations” | Matthew Gabriele and David M Perry on the civil war of Charlemagne's grandsons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Hugh Cowling

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What inspires our love of history? 6 historians give their childhood recollections on what got them started. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lilian Lenton, collage by Rachel Dickens

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Lilian Lenton, the 'Elusive Pimpernel': the courageous and daring suffragette who took direct action. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How to build a radical: what the Gunpowder Plot can teach us about extremism today. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Who was the greatest President of the United States in history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The palace of Kublai Khan’s son is illustrated in a 15th-century manuscript of the Travels of Marco Polo. Despite such vivid depictions, no reference to the Venetian merchant has ever been found in Chinese sources.

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Do The Travels of Marco Polo belong in the non-fiction section, or fantasy?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A hill to die on: why the Allies almost failed in the battle of Monte Cassino in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Was there a best time to be alive? The pitfalls of looking back for a nostalgic 'golden age'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sarah Biffin: the brilliant artist who found fame and royal favour – despite having no arms or legs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Martin Shaw and William Shakespeare

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My history heroMartin Shaw chooses William Shakespeare. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Thomas Cromwell shown in a c1533 portrait after Hans Holbein the Younger (Photo by Penta Springs Limited/Alamy Stock Photo)

Tudor

Thomas Cromwell's death – a rapid descent from the pinnacle of power

Annie Gray (Photo by Melissa Rodrigues)

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“Leisure was built into the whole shopping experience” | Annie Gray on the history of the high street. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving of John Milton in 1670. By that time he’d been blind for nearly two decades – but continued to express strong views on religion and the monarchy in his writing (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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Long road to paradise: the life of John Milton and how he created his masterpiece, Paradise Lost. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Holy sites of multiple religions stud Jerusalem’s skyline, including the Dome of the Rock (Photo by KiyechkaSo/Shutterstock)

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“I don’t underestimate how difficult it is to satisfy everybody” | Simon Sebag Montefiore on writing the history of Jerusalem. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Christine de Pizan, pictured speaking to a trio of inspirational women in an illustration in her Book of the City of Ladies, written around the turn of the 15th century (Photo by Album/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Medieval influencers: 4 women who brought change to the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lord Lucan and his wife Veronica, shortly after becoming engaged in 1963. It is thought that Lady Lucan was the intended target of the attack in 1974 (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Murder and vanishing without a trace: the mysterious case of Lord Lucan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Living in sin: unmarried relationships in Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How to celebrate a Victorian wedding. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How gruelling was the Victorian workhouse?

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What working-class autobiographies can tell us about the Industrial Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The princes in the Tower

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Have we finally unmasked the killer of the Princes in the Tower?

Iain Duncan Smith and Robert Peel

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My history heroIain Duncan Smith chooses Robert Peel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The surgeon Robert Liston prepares to cut open a patient in the first half of the 19th century. Known as the “fastest knife in the west end”, Liston could remove a leg in less than 30 seconds. For most patients, however, the agony was more prolonged. (Wellcome Library, London)

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An appointment at the house of death: the horror of the early Victorian hospital. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Egyptologist Howard Carter near golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in Egypt in 1922.

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Is the mummy's curse real? False tales about ancient Egyptian mummies (plus some true ones). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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