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Billy the Kid, also known as William H Bonney, was one of the most notorious gunslingers in the Wild West

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Billy the KidThe Wild West's most wanted gunslinger

Good King Hal

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My life in historyMike Farley, Henry VIII impersonator. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King James VII and II depicted while in exile in France.

Stuart

What were the 1707 Acts of Union and what did they achieve?

Soldiers drafted in to work during a coal porters’ strike in London, shovelling coal

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The Great Unrest: what caused the industrial action of 1911–14?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ghetto in Charkov Photo 1941 World War Two Russian Campaign Occupation of Charkov capital of the Ukraine

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The Black Book of Soviet Jewry. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration depicting the first hot air balloon flight in America, piloted by Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 7, 1793.

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When was the first crossing of the English Channel by air?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

J. Edgar Hoover holding a gun

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How J Edgar Hoover secretly ruled America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The commandos head off in José Ferrer’s Cockleshell Heroes (1955)

Second World War

Cockleshell Heroes: the real story of WW2's Operation Frankton

A photograph of Constance Markievicz (Picture by Alamy)

20th Century

Constance Markievicz’s fight for a free Ireland

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Howard Hughes: the troubled tycoon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The life and death of Marie Antoinette: everything you need to know about the last queen of France

The cover of Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895, showing the "degradation" of Alfred Dreyfus during which his sword was snapped over a warrant officer’s knee (Photo by Leemage / Corbis via Getty Images)

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The Dreyfus Affair: how France was divided over a miscarriage of justice

The Imperial State Crown, which alone has 2,868 diamonds, 273 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds and 5 rubies is a priceless symbol of the British monarchy (Picture by Getty)

General History

6 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Crown Jewels

The House of Commons in Sir Robert Walpole's administration

Georgian

Your guide toThe South Sea Bubble

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10 foods named after famous people from history

Edda Mussolini, c1929

Second World War

Edda Ciano & Hilde Beetz: how the women stood up to Hitler

An illustration of the Great Fire of London, c1675. St Paul's Cathedral is seen in flames (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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What if...The Great Fire of London never happened?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Perhaps the most charming idea about the origins of the festive tradition of kissing under the mistletoe derives from a Viking myth of Frigg, goddess of love and marriage, and her ill-fated son Balder. (Photo by Jurg Waldmeier/StockFood Creative/Getty Images Plus)

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Q&AWhy do we kiss under the mistletoe?

20th Century

The Great Smog of London: what caused the 1952 crisis?

The hammer and sickle, seen held aloft by the figures in this Soviet-era statue, symbolised unity between the working class and the peasantry

20th Century

When and why did the Soviet Union fall? Your history guide to the USSR

An unhappy looking woman on trial in a British Victorian court. From ‘The Graphic - An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper’ from 4th March 1882. ‘The Graphic’ was published by Illustrated Newspapers Ltd as a rival to ‘Illustrated London News’. (Picture by GettyImages)

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Historical cold cases with Nell DarbyThe mystery of Miss Lamond. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

sabella Bird Bishop (1831-1904), 1880. (Photo by Elliot & Fry/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)

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Isabella Bird: transatlantic trailblazer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Both adults and children were required to attend church – candle in hand – on the festival of Candlemas. (Image by Getty Images)

Medieval

Medieval church calendarA guide to the holy days

Circulation of the blood, 1628. English physician William Harvey (1578-1657) was the first to correctly describe the mechanism whereby blood is circulated in the body. Diagram showing the existence of valves in veins. From Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus, by William Harvey. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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A medical renaissance?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of the display cabinet where the World Cup was stolen

20th Century

What a pickle: how England lost, found and won the World Cup in a single year

This statue of Alfred the Great stands in Winchester, the former 'capital' of his kingdom (Photo by TonyBaggett via Getty Images)

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What if...Alfred the Great lost to the Vikings at the battle of Edington?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Hidden livesVictorian fasting girls

Grave of a fallen soldier in World War I

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“Their name liveth for evermore”: the difficult task of locating, identifying and honouring the dead of WW1. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain’s harsh winter of 1880–81 depicted as the start of a new ice age, by contemporary cartoonist George du Maurier (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Out of the cold: the slow beginnings of climate change science. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Statue of Ramesses II, at Luxor Temple. He ruled Egypt for 66 years, and left more statues than any other pharaoh (Photo by Michelle McMahon / Getty Images)

Ancient Egypt

5 of the most powerful pharaohs to rule ancient Egypt

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