July 2024

A c1800 depiction of Gulbadan Begum smoking while seated on a throne-like armchair.

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Gulbadan Begum: the Mughal Jane Austen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Should period dramas reflect modern sensibilities? (Photo by Hugh Cowling)

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Should period dramas reflect modern sensibilities?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth I and James VI & I (Photo by Getty Images and Alamy)

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From Tudor to Stuart: the succession of 1603. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 14th-century depiction of a lady and youth playing a game of draughts (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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War and pieces: 5 games from history that were about much more than fun. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "We mustn’t overlook the toll of surfacing traumatic histories". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Britain’s war on the slave ships: how the Royal Navy policed the Atlantic in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A bust of the Persian queen Atossa, wife of Darius I. It was at Atossa’s suggestion that Darius launched an invasion of Greece, sparking four decades of war. (Photo by AKG Images).

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Ancient Greek warrior women: the extraordinary female figures who shaped the Greco-Persian Wars. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sir Lindsay Hoyle and William Lenthall with a purple background.

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My history heroSir Lindsay Hoyle chooses William Lenthall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photographs of some of the victims of the 1944 Nazi massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane

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Oradour-sur-Glane massacre: the brutal SS atrocity that still haunts France