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Richard II and Henry IV of England. The cousins duked it out for control of England.

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The tyrant and the usurper: Richard II v Henry IV. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A mural in Bristol of activist Roy Hackett, one of the primary organisers of the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott (Photo by Steve Taylor ARPS/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Hakim Adi | “Racism in Britain has a long history – but so does anti-racism”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Members of the National Front speak to the press in 1978. Chairman John Tyndall (second from left) was a neo-Nazi who later founded the British National Party (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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From Mosley to the summer riots of 2024: the opportunistic evolution of Britain’s far right. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

William Dalrymple (Photo by David Hartley/Shutterstock)

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“Like ancient Greece, India is one of the seedbeds of civilisation” | William Dalrymple on putting India back at the centre of global history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler and his lover, Eva Braun, relaxing in Berchtesgaden in 1942. The Nazi leader’s private life was more ‘normal’ than some accounts have suggested (Photo by akg-images)

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“We need to understand the Nazis as human beings”: Richard J Evans on the motivations of Hitler’s followers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An 18th-century engraving of Edward, Earl of Warwick. Much of his short life was spent in the Tower of London before his execution for alleged treason (Photo by INTERFOTO/Alamy Stock Photo)

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The other prince in the Tower: the tragedy of Edward of Warwick. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An 1872 illustration from the weekly newspaper Days’ Doings shows a shoplifter being apprehended (Photo by Look and Learn/Rosenberg Collection/Bridgeman Images)

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Lady swindlers: 6 women who turned to lives of crime and became queens of the underworld. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "Many are turning against prejudice. But we cannot be complacent". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood"The making of our new world began in China just over 40 years ago". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

One of the hostages of the Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980 escapes across the balcony (Photo by David Levenson/Keystone/Getty Images)

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The Iranian Embassy siege of 1980: the six-day crisis that was the making of the SAS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Schools of hard knocks: Georgian and Victorian public schools. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The school for girls imprisoned at Tothill Fields in the late 1850s. A dedicated schoolmistress was employed to teach that institution’s large female population; in other prisons, the matron took lessons. (Engraving from Chronicle, via Alamy)

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Reading, writing and retribution: inside Victorian prison schools. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Shaftesbury Welcome Ragged School in Battersea , 1899. Classes of 40 were not rare, and they could stretch to 80 during staff shortages. (Photo by Mary Evans)

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Class warfare: a day in the life of a Victorian schoolchild. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tudor

What was Mary Tudor and Thomas Cromwell's relationship – did they plan to marry?

Gladiators do battle in a c320 AD mosaic, housed in the Borghese Gallery in Rome

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Blood, guts and spectacle: 6 shocking events from the history of ancient Roman gladiators. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Anne Boleyn

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Why did Henry VIII send Anne Boleyn to the block?

Visitors promenade alongside a lake with Surrey Zoological Gardens in the background, 1844 (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Victorian zoosAnimal attraction in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Manchester dog show, c1909

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The surprising history of Victorian dog shows. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Damien Lewis as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

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Thomas Cromwell on screen: is Wolf Hall the best depiction of the Tudor statesman?

President Joe Biden delivers a speech

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Life after the White House: what the US presidents did next

Abraham Lincoln

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How Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election victory set America on the path to Civil War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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5 things you (probably) didn't know about Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gustave Doré's famous engraving, produced to illustrate the 1872 book 'London: A Pilgrimage', depicts (and exaggerates) the squalor of tightly packed terraced houses. Yes, as Rosalind Crone observes, the washing lines in Doré's picture demonstrate that "slum-dwellers were not all very dirty - or, at least, they didn't choose to be". (Photo by Getty Images)

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Was Victorian life really so grim? 5 reasons why the Victorians were 'happy'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroSteve Hackett chooses Thomas Paine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The bloody rise of Henry V: how his brutal upbringing propelled him to greatness. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on Gaza's astonishing cultural heritage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Child-killing "demon-hosts": pigs in the medieval city. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fire rages in Dublin’s ‘Four Courts’, housing the Public Record Office of Ireland, in 1922. Many historical documents were destroyed in the conflagration. (Photo by Getty Images)

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InterviewRobert Bartlett: "The complexity of modern national politics has placed history at risk". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rune stone. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Reading the runes: what we can learn about everyday life in the Viking Age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Napoleon Bonaparte retreats from Moscow, as depicted in a painting from 1851. The French leader is the classic example of a man driven to wage war by a lust for power, says Richard Overy. (Photo by Getty Images)

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What drives our addiction to war?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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