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The first baby is born to English settlers in the Americas. (Illustration by Lynn Hatzius)

A big day in history: The first baby is born to English settlers in the Americas

Perkin Warbeck, an imposter and pretender to the English throne, being humiliated in the stocks before his execution in 1499. Warbeck was used by Henry VII’s Yorkist enemies in an unsuccessful plot to threaten the new Tudor dynasty. (Getty Images)

Imposters in history: 16 famous con-artists and pretenders

Dwarfs in Art: A New Perspective. (Image Credit: BBC/What Larks Productions Ltd/Simon Lloyed)

History TV and radio: what’s on next week (18-24 August 2018)

Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren

The marriages of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren

Augustus Caesar was named named as the principal heir of Julius Caesar. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The bloody rise of Augustus

Beard presents an episode of the BBC's 2018 headline arts series, 'Civilisations'. (Image credit: BBC/Nutopia)

Mary Beard: “I couldn’t give a toss what Roman emperor Donald Trump was most like” plus 3 other things we learned about her

Sunset over the causeway to St Michael's Mount, Marazion, Cornwall, England (Getty Images)

9 places associated with the Prayer Book Rebellion

As many as 15 people may have been killed, and a further 500 badly injured, during the 1819 riot in Manchester that came to be known as the 'Peterloo' Massacre. (Rischgitz/Getty Images)

16 August 1819: Militia massacres protesters at ‘Peterloo’

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So, you want to study history? Top tips from a graduate

'The Young Princes in the Tower', 1831. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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

Napoleon Bonaparte, published in London, 1909. (The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Napoleon Bonaparte: facts about his life, death and career

In only two years, Hernán Cortés brought about the downfall of an efficient military civilisation through a combination of diplomacy, warfare, tactics, luck and sheer force of personality, writes Caroline Dodds. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Cortés and Montezuma: The conquering of Tenochtitlan

Fidel Castro addresses delegates of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, September 1960. (Photo by Tommy Weber/AFP/Getty Images)

How should history remember Fidel Castro?

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6 things you (probably) didn’t know about Cleopatra