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Actor William Gillette playing the detective Sherlock Holmes. (Photo by Gillette/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

11 things you (probably) didn’t know about Sherlock Holmes

Charles Lindbergh, photographed alongside the ‘Spirit of St. Louis’.

A pioneering flight: Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic crossing

Winchester History Weekend 2017.

We’ve got royal history covered at this year’s History Weekends

A Very English Scandal. (BBCBlueprint Television Ltd)

History TV and radio: what’s on next week (19-25 May 2018)

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Sam’s historical recipe corner: Coronation chicken

Left: Prince Charles and Princess Diana on their wedding day. Right: Prince William and Catherine Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge on their wedding day. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

The 8 most famous royal weddings in British history

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Coming up in the July 2018 issue of BBC History Magazine

A portrait of actress Nell Gwynn, longtime mistress to King Charles II.

From Nell to Meghan: 10 romances between actors and royals

Dan Jones speaking at Winchester History Weekend 2017.

Tickets on sale now for BBC History Magazine’s History Weekends

A Georgian painting depicting children leaving for school

The Georgian guide to perfect parenting

A 14th-century Flemish illustration depicting the burying of plague victims in coffins in Tournai in 1349. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Black Death: “Oh father, why have you abandoned me?”

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The beach at Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast of Devon and Dorset, has attracted fossil hunters for centuries. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: Georgian fossil hunting

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Medieval buildings lining the Dijver canal in the centre of the Belgian city of Bruges. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Bruges, Belgium

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Freddie Mercury – born Farrokh Bulsara – on stage at Brondby Hallen, Denmark. (Photo by Jorgen Angel/Redferns)

My history hero: Freddie Mercury (1946–91)

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