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Illustration of a teacher standing atop a precarious stack of obsolete technology – TV, radio, computer, laptop – teaching from a book, while a large screen beside her displays an AI chatbot interface

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Robot wars in the classroom: why AI in education is nothing new. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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News stories from the HistoryExtra podcast. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Andy Burnham's leadership comes at a time when Downing Street has expanded its policy and communications operations, while prime ministers increasingly diverge from the norms of the 20th century | Credit: Getty Images

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The UK is about to get a new prime minister. But is the country now impossible to govern?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An older, bearded man in a heavy fur cloak faces the camera against a bleak mountain landscape.

Medieval

Who killed Robin Hood? The dark legends that inspired the new Hugh Jackman blockbuster

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Fake news and the Dreyfus affair: the media-fuelled scandal that divided France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Composite image showing a close-up portrait in the foreground and a red-tinted historical rocket on a launch platform in the background.

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In 1944, Hitler threatened London with a new "wonder weapon". How did resistance fighters race to stop him?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Florence Pugh and Christopher Abbott in period clothing walk past a horse-drawn cart outdoors. She wears a blue plaid fitted suit with a rolled hat and holds a handbag, while he walks alongside carrying a carpet bag.

General History

Is East of Eden based on a true story? Inside the new Netflix adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel

A 14th-century manuscript illustration showing women preparing and cooking offal over an open fire while members of the household eat at a table.

Medieval

How long would you have lived in the Middle Ages? Our expert has some bad news for you

The Bayeux Tapestry depicts Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex and future king of England, riding a horse with a hawk perched on his hand.

Norman

The Bayeux Tapestry is beautiful, but what was its purpose? New research might have the answer

Women enjoy life on two wheels in this 1895 photograph. The bicycle was a key part of the image of the ‘New Woman’ (Photo by Glasshouse Images/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Challenging gender in the Victorian Age: the 'masculine' New Woman and 'effeminate' New Man. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood"The making of our new world began in China just over 40 years ago". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ancient Greek manuscript page with worn edges and faded ink, viewed under imaging light.

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This ancient New Testament manuscript was covered in “ghost text.” Now, scientists have recovered its lost words. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian

A Victorian-era journalist snuck into an infamous asylum, and what she exposed shocked New York

A digital collage mixes close‑up sections of a painted face with modern geometric shapes in yellow, blue, gray, white, and rust‑red, intersected by black lines. A necklace with a gold letter “B” and pearl drops appears among the fragments.

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What did Anne Boleyn REALLY look like? Our new research could change everything. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo still from a period drama set in an overgrown grassy meadow. Two young women in early 19th-century dresses — one in gray with braided hair, the other in a lilac gown — stand close together, while a man in a green greatcoat, dark waistcoat, and tall brown top hat points off to the side, looking in that direction. Tall trees and hedgerows form the background under an overcast sky

Georgian

Is Sense and Sensibility a true reflection of life in Georgian Britain? The real history behind the new adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel

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Michael Wood on crafting a national narrative“We need a meaningful story for the new generation – our composite union”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting of a man with a snake like body, all piled on top of each other, with a sad face and long black hair, plus red wings

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The US 'voodoo' scare: why 19th-century racists spread fake news about Haiti. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two women lean over a white table, looking at a pair of wooden shoes with stilt-like soles

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"Museums are magical places": Kavita Puri on a new initiative encouraging close encounters with history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on the New Angel | "Few works of 20th-century art have such a distinguished list of past owners". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Newgrange, a prehistoric monument in the Boyne Valley of eastern Ireland

General ancient history

Were ancient Ireland’s ‘incestuous elites’ just a myth? A tomb older than Stonehenge has new answers

Pedro Pascal as General Acacius in Gladiator II

Roman

Gladiator III: what could happen in a new sequel, according to Roman history

Rome: Expeditions

Decide the destiny of the Roman Republic with this captivating new game

A painting of a partially clothed man (wearing shorts, and an open shirt) reclining on a bed.

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The new radicals: how the Bloomsbury Group transformed British culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Statue of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten

Ancient Egypt

Akhenaten, the 'heretic' pharaoh who brought a new religion to ancient Egypt

Cast of The New Look

20th Century

Is The New Look a true story? The real history behind the period drama

Victorian

The War of the Operas: new money vs old in The Gilded Age

The Unesco world heritage site of Hadrian's Wall. (Photo by Getty Images)

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New light on the end of Roman Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A view of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation ceremony from the rafters of Westminster Abbey, 2 June 1953 (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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Staging a coronation: 5 dos (and 5 don'ts) for crowning a new monarch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman

Roman pizza, the Black Room, and renovation: 4 incredible things we learned from Pompeii: The New Dig

Hitler and Eva Braun pose with their dogs in 1942

Second World War

Fake news and Nazis: Richard J Evans on the spectre of conspiracies

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