Christmas 2022

Illustration by Laurie Avon

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Medieval warfare: five deceptive ways to win a battle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woodcut from Frances Rose-Troup’s book about the Prayer Book Rebellion, in which some 4,000 people from Devon and Cornwall died (Photo by Collection PJ / Alamy Stock Photo)

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The Prayer Book Rebellion: Mark Stoyle on how the 1549 rising almost changed Tudor history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emblema of Cleopatra Selene

Ancient Egypt

Cleopatra's daughter: the tragic inheritance to triumphant reign of Cleopatra Selene

Cover illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1908, showing Ferdinand I of Bulgaria declaring independence (centre) and Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary seizing Bosnia and Herzegovina from a forlorn-looking Ottoman sultan, Abdülhamid II (Photo by Archives Charmet / Alamy Images)

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Divided they fell: how war, revolution and sectarianism led to the end of the Ottoman empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Civil rights campaigner Ida B Wells, acclaimed composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; and footballer Walter Tull.

Victorian

Black Victorians: the hidden Britons who helped shape the 19th century

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My history heroJeremy Bowen chooses Vincent Sheean. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prime minister and king in black and white photo

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Q&APrior to 2022, has there ever been a new monarch and prime minister in Britain in the same week?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.