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Episode 3How Alfred the Great saved the Anglo-Saxons from the Vikings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 2The rise of Alfred the Great. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 1How the Vikings pushed Anglo-Saxon England to the brink. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 4Was Elizabeth I's reign really a 'golden age'?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How Henry VII seized – and kept – the crown. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 3Elizabeth’s enemies: plots, rivals and the Spanish Armada. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 2Elizabeth I: a woman in a man’s world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 1Young Elizabeth I: the making of a queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fooling around in front of royalty: the extraordinary escapades of Europe's female jesters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How the Americas transformed Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Three Tudor-era children sit at a table within an ornate architectural frame, dressed in elaborate period clothing, with small round objects laid out before them.

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Royal rivalries10 of the most famous sibling relationships. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woodcut-style illustration depicts a group of accused people bound together and surrounded by flames, including one figure shown with an animal-like head.

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Tudor England's witch hunts killed hundreds of women. The death toll was nearly even worse. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 4Catherine the Great: How to survive on the Russian throne. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Inside the Maya storyworld. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A cut-out portrait of Lady Jane Grey is superimposed over Edward VI's handwritten Devise for the Succession, visually linking the Tudor claimant with the document that underpinned her brief reign.

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The most important document in Tudor history? How a forgotten text triggered a royal crisis

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Episode 3Tokugawa Ieyasu: Know when to prepare – and when to act. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 1Elizabeth I: The power of delaying decisions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why did Henry VIII boil his cook alive? 17 grisly tales from Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A colourised nineteenth-century engraving of William Shakespeare shows the playwright seated with one hand resting on a human skull and the other beside a flowering plant and a large book. A coat of arms appears in the upper left corner.

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Was Shakespeare a secret political radical? One play's hidden symbols reveal the truth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A delicate eighteenth-century pencil drawing shows Anne Hathaway in a simple cap and ruffled collar, facing slightly to the left against a plain background.

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Who was the real Agnes Shakespeare? The true story behind Hamnet's leading lady

A nineteenth-century painting depicts William Shakespeare standing indoors, holding an open book aloft as if reading aloud. One hand rests on a table beside him, while a carved chair and draped curtain frame the scene.

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Is Hamnet based on a true story? The real history behind the Shakespeare drama

A stylised illustration shows a hand holding a large, brightly coloured flower. In the centre of the flower is a person’s face, framed by vivid red‑orange petals. Green leaves extend from the stem, each containing faint, sketch‑like faces. The background is dark and textured, creating contrast with the bright central flower.

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The curse of the Boleyns: how Anne's fall doomed her family. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A detailed historical painting of a busy harbour. In the foreground, figures in richly coloured period clothing gather in conversation, including an older couple speaking with a young woman in a yellow‑and‑pink gown. Nearby, a boy and a woman look on, while another man bends over a chest. Behind them, ships with tall masts line the waterfront and people move about among stone towers and steep‑roofed buildings.

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Strangers and aliens in Tudor England: what was it like to be an outsider in Henry VIII's realm?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why were the Tudors obsessed with kissing each other, and what made them stop?

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Strangers and aliens in Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Renaissance portrait of Sir Thomas More seated in dark robes trimmed with fur, wearing a gold chain of office and black cap against a green draped background.

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He was the Tudor who created Utopia – but his insults were shockingly filthy

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Lady Jane Grey: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of two Elizabethan peers in ceremonial robes accompanied by a halberdier in ornate military dress and soft caps.

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"It was like going out naked": Which common accessory did Tudors dare not leave the house without?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A historic timber‑framed building with white plaster infill, exposed dark beams, and leaded diamond‑pane windows features an ornate carved wooden entrance and a tiled roof.

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The Tudor village that time left behind. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Margaret Beaufort catapulted the Tudors to the throne. But that wasn’t her original plan

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