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Painting showing the surrender at Yorktown – a man on a horse moves between two lines of cavalry

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When and how did the American Revolution end?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle of Brooklyn (aka the battle of Long Island), 27 August 1776

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American Revolutionary War: the 9 battles that made the United States

A late 18th-century portrait of proto-feminist and first lady Abigail Adams

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Women in the American Revolution: what were their lives like?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The first major clash of the war of American independence, at Bunker Hill

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Tea, taxes and the taking up of arms: a timeline of the American Revolution

An oil painting by Benjamin West shows some of the main belligerents of the Seven Years’ War, a conflict that lay the foundations for future discord between Native Americans and the British and French empires

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How did the American Revolution begin?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tudors play real tennis, a precursor to the modern game of tennis

Tudor

Q&AWhat was Real Tennis?

October 1876: General Nelson Miles talking with Chief Sitting Bull after the army's defeat at Little Bighorn

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The battle of Little Bighorn: what happened at 'Custer's last stand'?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Your guide to George Orwell and his visions of dystopia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bernstein and Woodward, the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal

20th Century

Your guide to the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon

Photo of Richard Nixon at a rally in 1968

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Richard Nixon: the rise and fall of an American president. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Elizabeth Gaskell: a voice of the Victorians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oscar Wilde pictured around 1882.

Victorian

Oscar Wilde's tragic end

1842 self-portrait of Sarah Biffin

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The armless artist who wowed Queen Victoria. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman reading a vintage thesaurus

Ancient Greece

Q&AWho wrote the first thesaurus?

A painting of Jean Thurel, a French soldier whose life spanned three centuries

General Modern

Jean Thurel: the oldest soldier in history?

Marriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête.

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What great paintings sayMarriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête by William Hogarth, c1743–45. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bronze figure of Sulis, the Celtic goddess associated with medicine, fertility and healing. (Image by Getty Images)

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Religion in Roman Britain: spreading the word of the gods. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Side profile illustration of Mansa Musa accompanied by the text 'The History Rich List'

General History

The history rich list: the 10 wealthiest people ever

First World War soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon In uniform

First World War

Poetry and protestWW1 poet Siegfried Sassoon

A modern image depicts Caratacus attending a tribunal in Rome, having been captured by Claudius’ soldiers in Britain

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Who were the rebels of Roman Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, following their arrest by the FBI 1950. They were convicted of passing infomation to the Soviets and executed in 1953

Cold War

The secrets and lies of Cold War spies

A bust of Vespasian in Bath. The future emperor was responsible for expanding Roman territory into the west of Britain. (Image by Getty Images)

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How did the Romans conquer Britain?

The Arnolfini portrait painting – oil on wood – appears to depict a wealthy couple holding hands in a domestic setting, the bed perhaps indicating that they are in a bedchamber

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What great paintings sayThe Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, 1434. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American actress, singer and model Marilyn Monroe

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Something's got to giveThe dramatic life of Marilyn Monroe

Women from the Auxiliary Territorial Service take a break

Second World War

An army of women: adventures in the Auxiliary Territorial Service

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Annie Oakley: the most famous sharpshooter in America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Haitians celebrate Kanaval, which takes place in the run-up to Lent. Later, over Easter, Haitian secret societies will use brooms to ‘sweep up’ zonbi spirits. (Photo by Jessica Obert/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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Zombies of the Caribbean: your guide to zonbi spirits. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 20th-century image depicts a ‘witch’ being burned alive in Munich. In reality, most suspects had already been killed before being set alight (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)

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8 popular misconceptions about the history of witchcraft in Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A mushroom cloud rises into the sky above Enewetak Atoll

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The mystery of the missing H-bomb paper. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

As well as practising Wicca, other traditions with Pagan roots – such as celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge – still remain popular. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/AFP via Getty Images)

20th Century

Wicca and modern witchcraft: a history

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