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THe Crosby Garrett helmet

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Why might the definition of treasure be changing? Five things we learnt from our conversation with heritage minister Lord Parkinson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 2Prague. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cave painting showing animals being hunted.

General prehistoryvideoVideo5 key things to know about prehistoric cave art

Civil rights campaigner Ida B Wells, acclaimed composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; and footballer Walter Tull.

Victorian

Black Victorians: the hidden Britons who helped shape the 19th century

Cast and crew filming an episode of EastEnders in 1998 (Photo by Polly Borland/Getty Images)

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BBC at 100How EastEnders saved the BBC. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky rehearses with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ahead of a concert to be broadcast on the Third Programme, 1958

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BBC at 100The Third Programme: a cultural institution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The presenters of the recently launched BBC Radio 1 assemble for a group photo outside Broadcasting House, 1967. (Photo by Robert Stiggins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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BBC at 100Sounds of the Sixties. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

African-American double act Buck and Bubbles (Ford L Washington and John W Sublett) were part of a coterie of entertainers of colour broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s (Photo by UPI/Bettmann via Getty Images)

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BBC at 100Mirroring Multicultural Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The life and death of Elvis Presley

A woman reading a vintage thesaurus

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Q&AWho wrote the first thesaurus?

A stained glass portrait of Dr Samuel Johnson in 17 Gough Square, London Inns court c1989.

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"A useful time-capsule of Georgian life": Samuel Johnson and his remarkable dictionary. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Arnolfini portrait painting – oil on wood – appears to depict a wealthy couple holding hands in a domestic setting, the bed perhaps indicating that they are in a bedchamber

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What great paintings sayThe Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, 1434. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval

What is the history behind May Day and why do we celebrate it?

Regé-Jean Page and Phoebe Dynevor meet for a dance in Bridgerton

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Q&AHow did people learn to dance in Baroque and Regency times?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Neil MacGregor is a broadcaster, author and former director of the British Museum

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Neil MacGregor"We decide for ourselves who we think we are – and museums are central to that". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Louis Wain, c1900, with one of his pet cats. Photo by Ernest H. Mills/Getty Images)

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Louis Wain: the cat-loving artist who forever changed the way that we see our feline friends. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emily Soldene, actress, writer and rebel

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Emily Soldene: actress, writer, rebel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Gothic: from Dracula to The Shining. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How the Beatles were in tune with 60s Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

School photo showing rows of children from a Manchester school

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Did Britain really roar in the 1920s?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Beatles pictured in 1969

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The Beatles: 8 landmark moments that chart the changing face of sixties Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Three medieval carol singers, image dated 1911

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Christmas carols: the history behind 9 festive favourites

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Michael Wood on James Bond“Bond’s role grew out of proportion to Britain’s standing in the world”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 14th-century illustration of a farmer leading a pack animal through the ice and snow

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The surprisingly modern Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Josiah Wedgwood: the radical father of English pottery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ira Aldridge: Shakespeare’s black Othello

Tourists at Stonehenge. We have no better idea today than 200 years ago what the people who erected these sarsens truly believed. (Getty Images)

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Prehistoric religion: a pagan riddle we will never solve?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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