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The US cutter Spencer attacks U-boat U-175

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The Battle of the Atlantic: why Britain almost lost to Hitler's U-boats. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The British home has changed substantially in the past 300 years (Illustration by Ed Crooks)

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The evolution of the British home: from the Georgian era to the present day. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of King John ripping up Magna Carta

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What if...Magna Carta hadn’t been written?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Queen Elizabeth II and members of the Privy Council

Medieval

Your guide to...the Privy Council

Painting of an auto-da-fé

Medieval

Your guide to...the Spanish Inquisition

Picture of the Battle of Beziers

Medieval

In a nutshellThe Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade

Picture of Luddites destroying machinery

Industrial revolution

Your guide to…The Luddite movement

Engraving of the death of Cleopatra

Ancient Egypt

When and how did Queen Cleopatra die and who killed her?

Painting of Alfred the Great

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Alfred the Great and Edington: how the King of Wessex became great. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Crowds in Piccadilly Circus in London celebrate VE Day

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Countdown to VE Day: the week World War 2 ended in Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sunset at the Chephren Pyramid, Giza, Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Searching for the pharaohs: where are the tombs of Ancient Egypt's missing kings and queens?

Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett

20th Century

Percy Fawcett and the search for the 'Lost City Of Z'

Painting of Bligh and those loyal to him being cast adrift from the Bounty in a small boat

Georgian

Mutiny on the Bounty: the incredible tale of how castaway captain William Bligh made it back to England

Spartacus is now associated with political upheaval, as in the 1919 Spartacist uprising.

Roman

Who were the gladiators of ancient Rome? Plus Spartacus, Crixus and 8 more fighters you should know

Photo of JFK in the motorcade

20th Century

Who killed JFK? The case that can never be closed

Illustration of Alexander the Great marching to war (Illustration by Sue Gent_

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What if…Alexander the Great had lived longer?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Isabella of Castile

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Isabella of Castile: a brief guide to the medieval queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What began as small raids on British coastal towns soon developed into all-out war, as a Great Viking Army arrived with a very different aim: to conquer (Photo credit: ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Vikings in Britain: how did raiders and marauders become lords and kings?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Coins depicting Viking longships

Viking

A brief history of the Vikings

A calendar

Roman

Q&AWhere do the names for days of the week come from?

The entry of Prince Charles Edward, 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', into Edinburgh in Scotland in 1745. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Forty-five rebellion: why did it fail?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Wall Street speculator tries to sell his car to passersby

20th Century

Your guide to the Great Depression

John Wilkes Booth leans forward to shoot President Abraham Lincoln as he watches a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C, in 1865.

Victorian

Q&AWhat play was Abraham Lincoln watching when he was shot?

'The Landing of St Augustine in Kent', AD 597

General ancient history

Q&AWhen did Christianity first arrive in Britain?

Engraving of emperor Commodus's death

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Cheese, angry gods and shoddy surgeons: the unlikely deaths of Roman emperors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Church of St Martin of Tours in Canterbury

Anglo-Saxon

Q&AWhat is the oldest church in England?

Photograph of John Snow in 1856

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The Broad Street cholera outbreak: how bad was it and how was it contained?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of Elizabeth I in a cage

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What if...The Spanish Armada had landed?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Children in Auschwitz

Second World War

The Windermere Children: the remarkable stories of 300 child survivors of the Holocaust

Tomb of Richard the Lionheart

Medieval

Q&AHow did Richard the Lionheart die? And where is he buried?

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