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The tombstone of a Roman soldier named Vivius Marcianus.

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How the Great Fire of London revealed the city’s Roman past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1400 farmer ploughing a field.

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6 of the most catastrophic weather events in British history

The sinking of the Gloucester as depicted in a c1682 painting

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Why the Gloucester might be the most important shipwreck since the Mary Rose. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nisha Katona and Samuel Pepys

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Discovering a lost royal battleship. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Great Seal of the Commonwealth of England

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Portrait of James, Duke of Monmouth, the 36-year-old illegitimate son of Charles II. (Photo by Alamy)

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An illustration of Colonel Blood

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HistoryExtra's Monarchy Masterclass with Tracy Borman

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The Three Musketeers sitting at a table

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The real three musketeers: the historical Athos, Porthos and Aramis (and d’Artagnan) revealed

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What one duel can tell us about Jacobean England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Servants pour wine to Jacobean gentlemen in a London tavern, c.early 17th century

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Witch hunters: cynical persecutors or misguided zealots?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

James Hamilton's 1880s painting 'The Massacre of Glencoe'.

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Hell at Glencoe: what led to the massacre in the Scottish Highlands?

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Valentine's celebrations in historyFrom fertility festivals to the first cards

A portrait of King Charles I

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Painting of Bonnie Prince Charlie

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Queen Anne’s Revenge: why was Blackbeard's flagship named after the Stuart queen?

Blackbeard, real name Edward Teach, seen standing on a dock with fuses in his beard

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Blackbeard: dastardly sea-devil or kind pirate?

Barbary pirates Oruç and Hayreddin Barbarossa, the siblings who famously captured Algiers from the Spanish in 1516

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Barbary pirates: the Muslim corsairs and their role in the slave trade

Henry Avery stands on the shore holding a cutlass, while his ship Fancy battles the Ganj-i-Sawai in the background

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The real pirates of the Caribbean: your guide to Nassau's pirate republic

Henry Morgan on ship's deck in battle taking a hostage

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Q&ADid pirates really live on the island of Tortuga?

Gentleman pirate Stede Bonnet is hanged from the gallows

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Female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read holding cutlasses

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Anne Bonny and Mary Read: the deadly female pirate duo

Map showing Sir Francis Drake's privateering fleet attacking Ribeira Grande the capital of Santiago

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Privateers, buccaneers and corsairs: why not all pirates were created equal

The capture of the pirate Blackbeard, 1718. Painting by JLG Ferris. One of history’s most notorious pirates, Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach almost certainly had a West Country twang because he was born in Bristol in around 1680. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

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Q&ADid most English pirates really talk with a West Country accent?

A pirate ship flying the Jolly Roger closes in on another vessel during a storm

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The golden age of piracy: when pirates ruled the waves

Captain Edward Teach, better known as 'Blackbeard', a pirate who plundered the coasts of the West Indies, North Carolina and Virginia. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The most famous and despicable pirates from history

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