Illustrated Medieval scene from the Romance of Lancelot

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Westminster Abbey, London

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A brief history of Westminster Abbey

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A medieval new England: the Anglo-Saxons’ eastern odyssey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1880 Christmas card shows a frog committing murder

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A portrait of Isabella I of Castile. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

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Isabella I of Castile: Europe’s greatest queen?

The newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II

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Why has the British monarchy survived?

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Is the world still living in the shadow of the crusades?

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The Crown of Thorns allegedly worn by Christ during the Passion. It was one of the prized possessions in Notre-Dame Cathedral until April 2019 – when it was rescued by the inferno that gutted the building. (Photo by: Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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A detail from the Bayeux tapestry depicting the conquest of England by the Normans. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

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9 medieval battles more significant than Agincourt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Agincourt was one of the major battles of the Hundred Years' War.

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Timothée Chalamet as Prince Hal

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“It’s hard to square Prince Hal’s pacifism with what we know about Henry V”: a historian’s review of The King

A portrait of Henry V of England. The Treaty if Troyes, signed in 1420, saw Henry named Charles's regent; by marrying the latter's daughter, Katherine, Henry secured his position as heir to the throne. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Portrait of Henry V

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Portrait of King Henry V. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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The footprint of Old Sarum cathedral

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King John out hunting

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A depiction of a 13th-century parliament, sitting under Edward I. The Good Parliament of 1376, during the reign of Edward III, sowed the seeds for discontent that was to come.

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Being invited to become a 'guest' of the Tower of London in medieval England meant, more often than not, that you would soon be food for the crows. (Image by Getty Images/RM Creative)

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A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the death of King Harold II during the battle of Hastings in 1066. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Where did the battle of Hastings actually take place? 8 facts about the 1066 battle

War criminal? William the Conqueror shown on horseback in the Bayeux Tapestry. The king's Harrying of the North was a military success but a human catastrophe – one that even appalled chroniclers traditionally sympathetic to the Norman regime. (Photo by Bridgeman)

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Was William the Conqueror a war criminal? The brutal story of the Harrying of the North

Cardinal John Henry Newman

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The murder of Thomas Becket

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Q&A: What happened to the assassins who killed Thomas Becket?

In 1992, Betty Boothroyd was voted in as Speaker of the House of Commons, with cross-party support by 372 votes to 238, asking the House “to elect me for what I am, not for what I was born”. (Photo by Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)

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A painting by Italian painter Defendente Ferrari (c1480-1540) showing a Saint performing a miracle.

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Baked loves of bread

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Q&AWhy are there 13 items in a Baker's Dozen?

Jan Žižka, the general whose peasant army defied the Holy Roman Empire in the 1420s.

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The battle of Agincourt, 1415

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True-to-scale battle numbers and 15th-century life: look inside the revamped Agincourt museum

Dan Jones by Steve Sayers and Helen Castor

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Crusaders defeat the Turks at Dorylaeum in 1097, as shown in a 14th-century illumination

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Crusaders: did they fight for God or gold?

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