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Painting depicting the Battle of Naseby

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The battle of Naseby: what happened?

A mermaid combing her hair

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Tails from the deep: separating the real folklore of mermaids from Disney stories

A 19th-century painting of Queen Henrietta Maria fleeing England as the Civil Wars turn against Charles I (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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From the home front to the front line: what were the roles of women in the Civil War?

In a 19th-century painting by Charles Landseer, Oliver Cromwell reads Charles I’s explosive correspondence captured at Naseby. It revealed the king was conspiring to gain Catholic support for his cause (Photo by ART Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)

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10 key battles of the Civil War

A painting of the battle of Naseby

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The New Model Army: how Oliver Cromwell’s radical fighting force won the Civil War

Charles I in Parliament in 1642, where he made an abortive attempt to arrest five MPs, from a 19th-century painting by Charles West Cope (Photo by The Print Collector/Alamy Stock Photo)

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8 reasons why the Civil War broke out. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Members of the Sealed Knot stage a re-enactment of the battle of Nantwich, fought during the Civil Wars in 1644 (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

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Crown v Parliament: your guide to the Civil War of the 17th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, fleeing from battle after attempting to unseat his Catholic uncle, King James II and VII, from the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland (Photo by De Luan/Alamy Stock Photo)

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The Monmouth Rebellion of 1685: your guide to the a duke's failed bid to overthrow his uncle, James II and VI. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German prisoners of war arrive on British soil in 1944, bound for camps somewhere in England (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Second World War

The German Great Escape? The tale of the WW2 Island Farm escape attempt

Paris became a charnel house during the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre, as shown in this painting by François Dubois (Photo By DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

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Catholics vs HuguenotsYour guide to the French Wars of Religion

(l-r): Thomas Turgoose, Charlotte Ockelton, Sophie McShera and Michael Socha star as members of the Hartley clan in BBC Two series The Gallows Pole (Photo by BBC Pictures)

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The Gallows PoleThe true story of the Cragg Vale Coiners

The waxing crescent moon rises over frosty rocks near the small settlement of Sligachan, on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

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Danny Robin's paranormal cold casesA Highlands horror story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Nell Darby's historical cold casesThe Hoxton Horror. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Junko Tabei and Ang Tsering pictured on the slopes of Everest

20th Century

Q&AWho was the first woman to climb Everest?

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, born the son of a humble yak farmer, pictured around the time of his Everest triumph of 1953 (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Tenzing NorgayThe Sherpa who first conquered the world's highest mountain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hampton Court

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My life in historyMatthew Storey, LGBT+ collections curator. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A family walks through San Francisco’s Chinatown district in 1904. Chinese culture endured in the US in spite of the Chinese Exclusion Act (Photo by Arnold Genthe/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

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The Chinese Exclusion Act: your guide to the 19th-century US anti-immigration laws

A depiction of Queen Cleopatra, c50 BC

Ancient Egypt

Who was Cleopatra? Her life, her love affairs and her children, plus 6 little-known facts

Elsie Wright, who with her cousin Frances Griffiths took photos of sprites, gnomes and fairies, 1917 (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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Fake news: 8 of the most notorious photograph hoaxes, from fairies to UFOs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting depicts Frederica, the bride- to-be of Frederick, Duke of York, meeting in-laws George III and Queen Charlotte for the first time

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The scandals that rocked Queen Charlotte's court

Queen Elizabeth II processes down the nave of Westminster Abbey during her coronation on 2 June 1953 (Photo by Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo)

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CoronationA-Z of royal coronations in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Brooklands.

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Danny Robin's paranormal cold casesThe ghost of Brooklands Circuit. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A report about the murder from an edition of the Daily News and Westminster Gazette. Despite gaining national press coverage, the case is largely forgotten today.

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Nell Darby's historical cold casesThe parents who never recovered. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1780 portrait of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and talented composer, violinist and swordsman (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Chevalier de Saint-Georges: how the mixed-race musical maestro Joseph Bologne became a star in 18th-century France

Dr Clare Jackson (Photo by Caroline Mardon)

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Clare Jackson on the Restoration“Radical ideas that had been preached and published could not be unthought”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What great paintings sayThe Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of King Richard I, on horseback, in the Holy Land, by Henry Justice Ford (Photo by The History Emporium / Alamy Stock Photo)

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What if...Richard the Lionheart had recaptured Jerusalem?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1642 portrait of a 12-year-old Charles, Prince of Wales, accompanied by a page, likely painted to commemorate his presence at the battle of Edgehill (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Making of a monarch: how the young Charles II endured war, defeat and exile before the Restoration. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Royal Observatory, commissioned by Charles II in 1675, on a hill in Greenwich Park, London (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Art, culture and science in the Restoration period. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Coronation portrait of Charles II after his crowning at Westminster Abbey on 23 April 1661 (Image by Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

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Your ultimate guide to the Restoration period

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