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Keep calm and carry on trading: how English merchants reacted to the Spanish Armada
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Becoming Elizabeth
The real history behind the new Tudor drama
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Where was Camelot?
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Roger Mortimer: the rebel baron who escaped the Tower to challenge Edward II
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Why is Cornwall called Cornwall?
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Margaret of Anjou: the ‘she-wolf’ queen who wouldn’t go quietly
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The Charter of the Forest: your guide to the 13th-century law
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The battle of Naseby: what happened?
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5 things you should know about Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians
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The Monmouth Rebellion of 1685: your guide to the a duke’s failed bid to overthrow his uncle, James II and VI
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Chamberlain and Cadbury of Birmingham
The first families in Britain’s second city
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David Carpenter on Henry III
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What was the fascination behind Tudor codpieces?
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How William Caxton printed the first-ever book in English
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