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The 'beautiful' game?

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Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis

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Q&A: How far back in time would I have to go until I couldn’t understand what people were saying?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Elizabeth I: the monarch behind the mask. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Femke De Jong

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The generational shift from home births to hospitals

Tironensian communities such as that of Kelso Abbey were particularly popular in Scotland. (Heartland-Arts/Getty Images)

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Where history happened: the monastic revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of Hannibal at the battle of Trasimene, which is "today remembered as one of the most stunning victories in military history". (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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A big day in history: Hannibal smashes his foes "at the very gates of Rome". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 1832 Reform Act made wide-ranging changes to the British electoral system, creating 67 new constituencies, disenfranchising 56 boroughs and reducing another 31 to a single MP.  (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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When the people spoke: the Great Reform Act. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ye Olde Travel Guide: Winnipeg 1913. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft. "She desperately wanted women to have the chance of an education and not set their sights too low," says Jo Brand. (Getty Images)

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History heroJo Brand chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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New Mary Rose museum opens in Portsmouth

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Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages

Aerial view of the Roman fort of Vercovicium

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10 places where history was made. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German soldiers with a horse-drawn cart during the retreat from Ukraine in 1943. The idea of Teutonic efficiency was a triumph of Nazi spin, says James Holland. (Keystone/Getty Images)

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The great misconceptions of the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Wolfson History Prize 2013 special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The LibraryBritain’s brutal battles for hearts and minds. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Truth, lies and historical fiction: an interview with 'The White Queen' writer Philippa Gregory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ye olde travel guide: Madrid 1621. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history hero: Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A crew of Dambusters pictured together in c1943. The famed Dambusters raid, Operation Chastise, was an RAF attempt to breach German dams and so "deprive Ruhr industry, and the Mittelland Canal of water, over the longest period of time possible". (Royal Air Force Official Photographer/ IWM via Getty Images)

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The legacy of the Dambusters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A big day in history: Rioters give East Anglia's rich and respectable a fright. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Q&A: Why did news of Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar take so long to reach England?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Spanish Armada: Tudor spin portrayed the events of August 1588 as a glorious English victory but, argues Robert Hutchinson, bad weather and bad tactics had more to do with the Spanish fleet's failure than Elizabethan derring-do. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The Spanish Armada: England's lucky escape. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British soldiers in Normandy. Though Goodwood cost the British some 200 tanks, infantry losses were relatively light, says Mark Urban. (Capt. E G Malindine/IWM via Getty Images)

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Operation Goodwood: one of the biggest British disasters of the Second World War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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'4,000-year-old skeleton' uncovered near Windsor

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18th-century slave uprising

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Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages

A Pompeian fresco from the first century showing a woman tuning a musical instrument. Excavations at the partially buried Roman city reveal that women played a prominent role in the home, and that they took personal grooming very seriously indeed. (Photo by: Werner Forman/UIG via Getty Images)

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At home with the Romans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States

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Time's Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination

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