June 2023

Hamida Djandoubi, 28, being led down a tunnel by a police official ahead of his execution in October 1977.

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10 strange historical facts that sound fake

Queen Margaret of Anjou, seated besides King Henry VI of England, is presented a book in a contemporary illumination (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty)

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Margaret of Anjou: the 'she-wolf' queen who wouldn’t go quietly. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 16th-century painting, Triumph of Death, by Jan Brueghel the Elder depicts an army of skeletons ravaging the Earth (Photo by akg-images)

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6 moments when diseases drastically altered human history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Athénaïs de Montespan, one of the official mistresses of Louis XIV, was a suspect in a scandalous plot to murder the French king (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The Affair of the Poisons: who plotted to kill King Louis XIV?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne Boleyn during her imprisonment in the Tower of London, a c1835 painting by Édouard Cibot (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Elizabeth I and Anne Boleyn: the Tudor queen’s undying love for her mother

A joint British-Jewish patrol in Palestine during the 1936–39 Arab Revolt (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

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How Britain stirred the cauldron of conflict in Palestine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men kiss in a medieval illumination.

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Are some LGBTQ histories being overlooked?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry III of England.

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David Carpenter on Henry III“He was not a great king but he was respected as a most Christian one”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

East India Company officer James Tod travels through India in a 19th-century illustration

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Opinion“History is currently being used for political purposes that have very little to do with the past”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of Tenzing Norgay (left) and Edmund Hillary, sharing a smile in 1953, shortly after scaling Everest.

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EverestThe story of the race to the top of the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Patrice Lawrence and Lord Kitchener

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My history heroPatrice Lawrence chooses Lord Kitchener. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.