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The many lives of India. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Man smoking a pipe, early 17th century

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Q&ADid people smoke anything before tobacco was discovered?

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Guy Fawkes “is like a modern-day jihadist,” says counter-terrorism expert

Picture of the Frost Fair on the Thames

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Q&ADid the Thames used to freeze over?

A portrait of Charles II, by 17th-century painter John Michael Wright

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Coughton Court, an English country house

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'Portrait of Oliver Cromwell', (c1653?).

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The Gunpowder Plot and the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Samuel Pepys portrait

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Q&AHas anyone ever died of laughter?

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10 astronomers you’ve (probably) never heard of

'The butterfly hunt' (1874) by Berthe Morisot

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Portrait of Miranda Kaufmann. (Image by Jeni Nott)

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Q&AWhy did Scotland join the 1707 Union with England?

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The Sedgeford Portrait, which is said to show Pocahontas and her young son, Thomas. (Photo by Getty)

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1,138: The number of London children recorded as dying of “teeth” in 1685. (Illustration: James Albon for BBC History Magazine)

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History’s most surprising statistics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of the battle of Naseby

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An engraved depiction of John Lilburne, who "stands as a towering icon of the liberal tradition". (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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My history hero: John Lilburne (c1615-57)

Marston Moor, near York, was the site of the greatest battles of the Civil War – the battle of Marston. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Margam Park, Port Talbot

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Smithills Hall, Bolton

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Erddig, Wrexham

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Isle of Tiree, Hebrides

A woodcut depicting a witch hanging in England, c17th Century. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

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Witches in the dock: 10 of Britain’s most infamous witch trials

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