Dockers unloading wine barrels

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Wrecked buildings in Los Angeles' South Central district following 1992 riots

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The 1992 LA riots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I.

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

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Equestrian portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer from the Ellesmere manuscript of his Canterbury Tales (14th century). "The world in which Chaucer moved was very outward-looking," says Marion Turner. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Cosmopolitan Chaucer: the 14th-century poet’s inventive, international life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving depicting a scene of chaos at Bethlem Royal Hospital

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Bethlem Royal Hospital: why did the infamous Bedlam asylum have such a fearsome reputation?

A scene from the Smithfield Decretals depicting a rabbit beheading a man. Rabbits seem to have a strange place in medieval imagery – and are depicted as having strangely violent tendencies. "It’s the sort of thing to give you nightmares," says David Musgrove. (Photo by Album/British Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Medieval punishments, Toulouse, 14th century. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

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How bloody was medieval life?

Ramshackle homes in a Newcastle slum, c1880

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From riches to rags: David Olusoga reveals how Britain's grand houses descended into Victorian slums. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The British home has changed substantially in the past 300 years (Illustration by Ed Crooks)

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The evolution of the British home: from the Georgian era to the present day. 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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Books interview with Emma Griffin: "Looking at family life reveals a dark side to Victorian economic progress". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Living on the edge in Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Surviving the Great Plague. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Painting of an auto-da-fé

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Your guide to...the Spanish Inquisition

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Elma Brenner on medieval wellbeing: "People in the Middle Ages were absolutely focused on staying healthy"

A French 15th-century covered market

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10 things you (probably) didn't know about the Middle Ages

Dissection of human cadaver by physicians

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

Medieval banquet

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What time of the day did medieval people eat?

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

An illumination depicts medieval women embroidering

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Medieval misconceptions: 12 myths about life in the Middle Ages – busted

Clothes infected by the Black Death are burned in medieval Europe, c1340. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Black Death facts: your guide to "the worst catastrophe in recorded history"

A medieval couple being married by a clergyman

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Love and marriage in medieval England

Picture of Luddites destroying machinery

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Your guide to…The Luddite movement

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Sally Dixon-SmithMedieval love and marriage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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What was a drunkard's cloak used for? This illustration shows a man wearing the archaic punishment tool designed to punish habitual drinkers. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Q&AWhat was a drunkard’s cloak used for?

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

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