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Sketch of Guy Fawkes with a lantern kneeling in front of barrels of gunpowder

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Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot: everything you need to know

James VI and I depicted in Parliament, c1605

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Queen Elizabeth I’s ‘Golden Speech’ and 5 more key moments in the history of crown and parliament. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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10 historical haunted sites across Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Monteagle letter, which shares a warning about the Gunpowder Plot. (National Archives)

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In their own words: 6 of history’s most fascinating letters

Illustration of pirate John Ward

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Pirate John Ward: the real Captain Jack Sparrow

1651, Charles Prince of Wales (1630 - 1685) (later King Charles II of England) meets Sir Henry Lee near Oxford during the Civil War, while escaping after the Battle of Worcester.

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How Charles II put Britain back together after the Civil War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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5 reasons why the King James version of the Bible matters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The historical differences between Scottish and English Law, and what it means for Brexit. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Suzannah Lipscomb on women’s lives in Reformation France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 16th-century portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Mary, Queen of Scots: the real history behind the film

William of Orange at the battle of the Boyne

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Q&AWhen was England last successfully invaded by a foreign power?

Mary, Queen of Scots and her ladies-in-waiting. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Mary, Queen of Scots: what happened to her ladies-in-waiting?

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Taxing the rich to feed the poor in the 17th century: the world's first welfare state. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Q&A'God Save The Queen': how old is the British national anthem?

For our forebears, the secret to a good night's sleep lay in the contents of your gut. (Photo by Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

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6 sleeping tips and tricks from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of 17th-century scholar John Wilkins

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Ye final frontier: the 17th-century space race. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Britain’s 7 most amazing stately homes

Illustrations by Ian Morris.

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The Civil War cross-dressers: the women who swapped dresses for breeches

The ruins of Dunluce Castle, which sit on the coastal cliffs of North Antrim in Northern Ireland. They are thought to have been the inspiration for CS Lewis’s castle Cair Paravel in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ (1950–56). (Photo by Andrea Ricordi/Contributor/Getty Images)

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9 of Britain’s best castles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charles I. (Photo by World History Archive/Alamy)

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9 eccentric monarchs through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men enjoying a drink and a chat in a coffee house, 1674. Coffee houses became known as ‘schools of the wise’, where people would gossip, argue and discuss the breaking news of the day. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A drink for the devil: 8 facts about the history of coffee

A 16th-century woodcut by Albrecht Dürer entitled 'The true and false apostles of Christ'. As the Reformation recast Europe's spiritual landscape, many believers fretted that their religion no longer felt true to them. (Photo by Alamy)

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The fury that fuelled the rise of atheism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scottish nobles gathering in the 17th century

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Scotland on the brink: the nation's final years of independence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Blenheim Palace in a c1880 print from ‘A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland’, edited by Reverend FO Morris, Volume I, William Mackenzie, London. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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10 things you might not know about Blenheim Palace

A joint Franco-Native Indian raid left 56 residents of Deerfield, a small township in north-western Massachusetts, dead. (Alamy)

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America: Brave new world or accident?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This 16th-century woodcut depicts King James VI at the North Berwick witch trials, the case that first sparked his obsession with hunting. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A c1830 portrait of the scandalous but sublimely talented Lorenzo da Ponte. (Photo by Alamy)

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Is it true that an angry mob of Dutchmen killed and ate their own prime minister in 1672? (Illustration by Glen McBeth)

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Q&AIs it true that an angry mob of Dutchmen killed and ate their own prime minister in 1672?

Olivia Colman as Queen Anne in 'The Favourite'. (Photo by Twentieth Century Fox/Entertainment Pictures)

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The Favourite: the real history behind the new Queen Anne film

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