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Language of flowers postcard

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Q&AWhat was floriography?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An aerial photo of Stonehenge

Stone Age

Your guide to Stonehenge, plus 12 fascinating facts you might not know

John Wilkes Booth flees the theatre after shooting US president Abraham Lincoln

Georgian

Q&AWhy do we say ‘your name is mud’ – and what does it have to do with Abraham Lincoln?

18th century French caricature satirising the fashion for enormous wigs

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Q&ADid Rococo wigs really have mice?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian, by Jacob Marrel, 1679 (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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Maria Sibylla Merian: the artist who challenged the natural world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ras Prince Monolulu entertains the crowds at Aintree racecourse, 1931 (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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Ras Prince Monolulu: the horse-race tipster who transformed himself into an Abyssinian prince. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soldiers from Mao Zedong’s Red Army assemble in Yan’an, Shaanxi province, 1936 (Photo by Getty)

20th Century

The Chinese Civil War: a guide to the conflict and the rise of Mao Zedong

Stuart

Queen Anne’s Revenge: why was Blackbeard's flagship named after the Stuart queen?

Blackbeard, real name Edward Teach, seen standing on a dock with fuses in his beard

Stuart

Blackbeard: dastardly sea-devil or kind pirate?

Barbary pirates Oruç and Hayreddin Barbarossa, the siblings who famously captured Algiers from the Spanish in 1516

Stuart

Barbary pirates: the Muslim corsairs and their role in the slave trade

Henry Avery stands on the shore holding a cutlass, while his ship Fancy battles the Ganj-i-Sawai in the background

Stuart

The real pirates of the Caribbean: your guide to Nassau's pirate republic

Henry Morgan on ship's deck in battle taking a hostage

Stuart

Q&ADid pirates really live on the island of Tortuga?

The Immortals shown holding long spears on a frieze from the palace of Darius the Great

General ancient history

The Persian Immortals: the feared elite guard of the Achaemenid empire

Gentleman pirate Stede Bonnet is hanged from the gallows

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Hunting pirates: how piracy's golden age came to an end. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read holding cutlasses

Stuart

Anne Bonny and Mary Read: the deadly female pirate duo

Map showing Sir Francis Drake's privateering fleet attacking Ribeira Grande the capital of Santiago

Stuart

Privateers, buccaneers and corsairs: why not all pirates were created equal

The capture of the pirate Blackbeard, 1718. Painting by JLG Ferris. One of history’s most notorious pirates, Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach almost certainly had a West Country twang because he was born in Bristol in around 1680. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Stuart

Q&ADid most English pirates really talk with a West Country accent?

A pirate uses his cutlass to force a bound and blindfolded man to walk the plank

Stuart

Q&AWas walking the plank a real pirate punishment?

Pirates burying a treasure chest on a beach as their captain looks on

Stuart

Q&AX marks the spot: did pirates bury their treasure?

A 17th century sketch of a peg-legged pirate walking with the aid of crutches

Stuart

Q&ADid any real pirates wear eyepatches or have peg legs?

Nineteenth century engraving depicting raining cats and dogs

General Early Modern

Q&AWhy do we say 'raining cats and dogs'?

Photo of tall ship

Georgian

Q&AWho do we say 'shot across the bows'?

Sketch of the battle of Blore Heath, howing the final disastrous charge of the Lancastrians

Medieval

9 battles that shaped the Wars of the Roses – from St Albans to Tewkesbury

Photo showing a snowy Wounded Knee, where US troops massacred the Lakota Sioux, with bodies visible in the foreground

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A model of the so-called ‘Piltdown Man’ and a replica of its skull,

Edwardian

Q&AWho was the Piltdown Man?

Nellie Bly

Victorian

Around the world in 72 days: how journalist Nellie Bly became the real Phileas Fogg

Photograph of Bass Reeves, the first black deputy US marshal west of the Mississippi River

Victorian

From slave to real Lone Ranger? The incredible life of black Wild West lawman Bass Reeves

William the Conqueror was the second king of England to be crowned in 1066

Norman

The coronation of William of Normandy on Christmas Day in 1066

The Apollo 8 crew in a capsule during training

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Apollo 8: why NASA's Christmas mission to the Moon was a bright end to a dark year. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An 18th-century painting depicts Alexander the Great preparing to hack through the Gordian Knot with his sword

General ancient history

Q&AWhat was the Gordian Knot?

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