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ever before,” says Margaret MacMillan. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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10 things you didn’t know about the history (and mystery) of Halloween

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Should I stay or I should go? The problem with historical monuments in 2020. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In 802 Charlemagne took delivery of an elephant, sent to him by Harun al-Rashid, the caliph in Baghdad. Here, a manuscript illumination from a late 12th century English Latin bestiary. (Image by Alamy)

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8 turning points in medieval European history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The storming of Beziers

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A photograph of the Tower of London, from the river

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Anne Boleyn, Beefeaters, Guy Fawkes and the princes: a brief history of the Tower of London

Life in bondage Formerly enslaved African-Americans sit for a photograph in Virginia, c1850. At that time, 4 million people were still enslaved across the US, as debates around abolition raged on both sides of the Atlantic (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

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

Portrait of an African man, c1530 . (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The ‘Pilgrims’ stride onto American soil in 1620 after crossing the Atlantic on the Mayflower, as shown in a 20th-century painting. The colony that they established was – initially, at least – a genuinely enlightened place, writes James Evans. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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If you’re interested in learning about history at home, there are plenty of short courses available online on a variety of topics. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Covid-19 saw the UK’s universities, such as the University of Glasgow (above), cancel in-person teaching. The logistics of teaching and studying during the pandemic are proving complex. (Photo by Dreamstime)

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How Covid-19 is forcing universities to change

Hiring more black academics “to teach all sorts of histories” is key to instigating real change in university history education, lecturer Charlotte Lydia Riley argues. (Photo by Shutterstock)

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Empire builder Maharajah Ranjit Singh sits astride a horse as an attendant holds a parasol over him. Singh is historically credited with growing his ancestral warrior-clan, the Sukerchakia misl, into a grand imperial dynasty. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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A Sikh tragedy: the Indian kingdom that fell foul of the British empire

A reconstruction of an extract from the Book of the Dead depicting an embalming scene. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library via Getty Images)

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Guidebook to the Ancient Egyptian afterlife

A Fool Rebuked by God, 14th-century psalter. (Photo by Heritage Arts/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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Enola Holmes (left to right): Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes, Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes, Sam Caflin as Mycroft Holmes. (Photo by Robert Viglaski/Legendary)

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Pilgrim Fathers boarding the Mayflower

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History graduate Steve Humphries' 1998 film exploring the stories of women who worked in Magdalene laundries

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How did England react to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1751? (Illustration for BBC History Magazine)

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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor playing Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII in the 1963 film, Cleopatra. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

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7 of the most memorable couples in history

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An illustration depicting the deposition of the body of Edward the Confessor in the tomb at Westminster in 1066. (

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London during the Blitz - the systematic night-time bombing of the British by the Luftwaffe in 1940 - 1941. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The Crown S4 cast: which real historical figures feature in season four of Netflix’s royal drama – and what did they really look like?

Evening Light on Hadrian's Wall

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