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Actor Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster in James Whale's classic 1931 film

Georgian

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: the birth of a gothic monster

The inner courtyard of the old pottery factory at Gladstone Pottery Museum, with its five towering bottle ovens. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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An Australian Sea Shanty band, c1988

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A brief history of sea shanties

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The city Bhaktapur looming over the Kathmandu valley

20th Century

The hippy trail: a pan-Asian journey through history

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Extract from Domesday Book.

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Your guide to the Domesday Book: the most important document in English history?

Agatha Christie

20th Century

Agatha Christie in profile: facts about her life

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20th Century

The death of John Lennon: what happened?

Alfred Nobel (Bettmann/Getty Images)

General Modern

The history of the Nobel Prizes

Even the ancient Egyptian played board games – this fresco from the tomb of Nefertari shows the queen playing Senet

General Modern

8 of the best historical board games for history lovers

Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret as Prince Charming and Cinderella in a 1941 pantomime

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Q&AWhat are the origins of the Christmas pantomime?

British mystery writer Agatha Christie, c1926.

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The mysterious disappearance of Agatha Christie

Naming of St John the Baptist, c12th century. From a wall painting in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Medieval baby names: what were people called in the Middle Ages?

Medieval

Q&A: Why and how did the Aztecs practise human sacrifice?

Simon Schama photographed in Hauteville House, Guernsey (Photo by Oxford Films, Photographer Eddie Knox)

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Illustration for BBC History Magazine.

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Afua Hirsch in Kenya. (Photo by Clear Story/BBC)

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Afua Hirsch: "The prejudice still surrounding Africa is absolutely rooted in a racist past". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard III. (Photo by Getty Images)

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14th century miniature showing a child's baptism. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Afrikaners with a Nordenfeld-Maxim field gun at Mafeking during the Second Boer War, 1900. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Fasil Ghebbi, a 17th-century fortress city in Gondar, Ethiopia. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII

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QuizHenry VIII's wives

The magnificent ruins of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani

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Africa’s medieval golden age

The Voynich Manuscript is written in a unique alphabet that has thus far defeated some of the world’s greatest codebreakers. (Photo by Alamy)

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The real Aztecs: brutal, bloodthirsty... and caring?

York Minster's rose window features 16th-century Tudor Roses white on red (left) and Lancastrian Roses, red

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A brief history of the English rose

Phillipa Soo, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Jasmine Cephas Jones as the Schuyler sisters in 'Hamilton'. (Image: Disney+)

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The women of Hamilton: Angelica, Eliza and… Maria Reynolds

Wolfson Prize winner 2020 David Abulafia. (Photo by Fran Monks)

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