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Anna Whitelock is a historian, author and broadcaster. She is professor of the history of monarchy at City, University of London and director of the Centre for the Study of Modern Monarchy. Anna is an international media commentator on monarchy, public history and heritage, and the Tudors and Stuarts

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Queen Mary I of England and Ireland. Her legend speaks merely of burning Protestants, yet her time on the throne featured many great achievements, not least establishing that a woman had the right to reign. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Mary I: the forgotten trailblazer

St Catharine's College, Cambridge has already removed a bell from view after concluding it came from a slave plantation. (Image by Alamy)
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A 19th-century portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)
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Elizabeth I’s love life: was she really a ‘Virgin Queen’?

Mary, Queen of Scots craved the throne occupied by her cousin Elizabeth I (pictured). Theirs was a relationship defined by plots, massacres, assassinations and ultimately, the executioner's sword. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)
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Deadly rivals: Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots

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From left: Fern Riddell, a cultural historian specialising in sex and suffrage; Janina Ramirez, a broadcaster and historian based at the University of Oxford; Joann Fletcher, a broadcaster and writer, and an Egyptologist at the University of York; Anna Whitelock, a historian of royal and early modern history, based at Royal Holloway, University of London. (Photography by Helen Atkinson)
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What is it like to be a female historian in the 21st century?

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Women in popular history

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“Studying history is the ultimate passport to the future”

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Mary I: a highly impressive queen cut off in her prime

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Elizabeth I: the monarch behind the mask

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How Elizabeth I used parties as a weapon against the Catholic threat to her throne

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