Dockers unloading wine barrels

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Aesop's fables: The Fox and The Crow. Illustration after 1485 edition printed in Naples by German printers for Francesco del Tuppo. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images

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A 'superfluity of nuns' plus 9 more collective nouns that originate from the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The mystery of the vanishing lighthouse keepers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jayaben Desai salutes fellow pickets at the Grunwick film processing factory in 1977

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The Grunwick protests: remembering the 1970s strike for migrant workers' rights. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan) in Francis Lee's new film 'Ammonite'. (Photo courtesy of Lionsgate UK / See-Saw Films)

Victorian

The real history behind Ammonite

Viking women gathered outside a home - illustration

Viking

What was life like for Viking women?

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How our hunger for land shaped history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second century relief portraying a Roman ophthalmologist examining a patient. (Photo By DEA / A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

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Roman medicine: 6 ways people stayed healthy in ancient Rome. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1871: Otto von Bismarck reads the Proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles following Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

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Germany’s pre-Nazi history: rethinking the Second Reich. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edgar the Aetheling is notably missing from the Bayeux Tapestry

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The lost figure of the Bayeux Tapestry: where is Edgar Ætheling?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Assassinations: from the ancient world to JFK. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Cold War: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The 1815–46 Corn Laws: your guide to the crisis and why they were repealed

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Voices of China. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of a 17th century plague doctor

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Fake historyHunting down false facts about the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Red Cross worker in the United States, 1918

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Spanish flu: the virus that changed the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women 'take the air' in an attempt to ward off the Spanish Flu

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"Far too little, too late": what happened when Spanish Flu hit Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Madame Tussaud's exhibition at Baker Street, London. But who was her first waxwork? (Photo by Bettmann, via Getty Images)

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Q&AWho was Madame Tussaud’s first waxwork?

The 'Iron Duke' steam locomotive with railway workers

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The history of railways in Britain: from the first steam trains to the rail revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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6 articles about…the Victorian era

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Chaos & communism: China’s 1949 revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An Athenian red-figure kylix (cup) dating from around 510–500 BC depicts a young pentathlete pulling his older lover towards him for a kiss. In many of the city-states of ancient Greece, sex between a man and a youth was an accepted – even idealised – form of love, its virtues extolled in works by writers including Plato. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Pride and prejudice: same-sex relations through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Is “Blitz Spirit” a myth?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

View of a gay pride parade in Boston, Massachusetts, c1977. (Photo by Spencer Grant/Getty Images)

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From the ancient world to the 1969 Stonewall Riots: a brief guide to LGBT+ history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dr Jenna Dittmar, who has been studying medieval skeletons, reveals what her findings can tell us about injuries and violence in the era. (Image by Getty Images)

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Fatal accidents and violent injuries in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lord Fiske, chairman of the Decimal Currency Board, makes a purchase at a Woolworths using the new currency on Decimal Day, 15 February 1971

20th Century

Decimal Day: when Britain said farewell to the shilling

Paul Delaroche's impression of Lady Jane Grey's execution

Tudor

Who was Lady Jane Grey? The tragic story of the 'Nine Days Queen'

Dark side of fashion: a 1910 portrait of a woman wearing a hat adorned with ostrich plumes and a stuffed bird. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, owning hats like this was a sign of status for many women. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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A hatful of horror: the Victorian headwear craze that led to mass slaughter

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How slavery fuelled the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aerial view reconstruction drawing of Maiden Castle

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A brief guide to the British Iron Age

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17th-century London: a city shaped by catastrophe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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