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Huge sun setting over power lines and palm trees in California. (Photo by Getty Images)

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California’s century of change. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A bust of Ludwig van Beethoven before the original handwritten score for his Piano Sonata no. 28 in A major, Op. 101. The composer stood at the vanguard of a new artistic movement that celebrated emotion and nature. (Getty Images/Alamy/Dreamstime)

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The soundtrack of Beethoven’s life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Globe Theatre illustration

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The Globe theatre fire of 1613: when Shakespeare’s playhouse burned down

How much do you know about the Vikings? Test your knowledge with our quiz. This mid-19th century painting shows Viking ships on the River Thames. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Viking

QuizHow much do you know about the Vikings?

American jazz singer Helen Forrest performing with trumpeter Harry James (1916-1983), c1945. (Photo by Metronome/Getty Images)

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History heroDame Vera Lynn chooses Helen Forrest (1917–99). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Statue of Admiral Horatio Nelson in Trafalgar Square London

General Modern

Should we judge historical figures by the morals of today?

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Ancient Egypt

10 things you (probably) didn't know about ancient Egypt

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The cosmopolitan Chaucer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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David Olusoga on A House Through Time. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rutger Bregman. (Rutger Bregman (Photo by Maartje ter Horst)

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Rutger Bregman’s optimistic history of the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Rethinking the Renaissance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why do brides wear white dresses? Plus the history behind 3 more wedding traditions

Miners work hard in cramped conditions at the pit face in Ellington Colliery, Northumberland, 1951 (Photo by Getty Images)

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The Northumbrians: from Bede to Geordie Shore. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tectonic foliation in metamorphic rocks at Porthleven, Cornwall. (Photo by Getty Images)

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How the world made us. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Spartacus is now associated with political upheaval, as in the 1919 Spartacist uprising.

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Who were the gladiators of ancient Rome? Plus Spartacus, Crixus and 8 more fighters you should know

Emma Dabiri in conversation about her book 'Don't Touch My Hair'

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"Afro-textured hair had no stigma before the dehumanisation of black people that emerged from slavery": Emma Dabiri discusses the changing perceptions of Afro-textured hair. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A pile of books

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How to write a historical novel and get it published: 9 tips from bestselling authors Alison Weir, Hilary Mantel and more

Walt Disney uses a baton to point to sketches of Disneyland

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The history of Disneyland: How Walt Disney created the 'Happiest Place on Earth'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pocahontas and John Smith in Disney's ‘Pocahontas’ (1995). (Photo by AF archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Disney history: how has the corporation shaped our perception of the past?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

PT Barnum and General Tom Thumb

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The greatest show on earth? The myths of the Victorian freak show

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A history of nakedness in art: Mary Beard on her new BBC series Shock of the Nude

Historian Mary Beard at the Oxford Literary Festival 2019. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

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Mary Beard on the nude in western art. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

David Bowie and Twiggy

20th Century

David Bowie's life in pictures

20th Century

"A great social experiment”: a brief guide to prohibition

A poster for Terence Fisher's 1958 horror 'Dracula'

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From Dracula to The Historian: 5 gothic novels that reflected the anxieties of their age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tourists at Stonehenge

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Stonehenge: a prehistoric tourist trap. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British writer Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl11 things you might not know about the children's author

The ninth-century Alfred Jewel, adorned with the inscription: "Alfred ordered me to be made". This masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon art is thought to have been an aestel, a pointer used to follow text. (Picture by Alamy)

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10 ways the Anglo-Saxons changed the course of British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was personally invited by Oscar Wilde to play the title role in the upcoming London premiere of his play, 'Salomé'.

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6 of London theatre’s most notable historical scandals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

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The big questionShould museums return their treasures?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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