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My favourite place: Jaipur

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The May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis: Churchill’s darkest hour?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What are Henry VIII powers?

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England's Norman queens and the power they wielded: an interview with Alison Weir. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The 1267 Treaty of Montgomery: a prince’s hope for the future of Wales. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My favourite place: Florence, Italy

West Indian immigrants arrive at Victoria Station, London, following their journey from Southampton Docks. Originally published in ‘Picture Post’, 1956. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Getty Images)

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Clair Wills on immigrants. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Italian writer Primo Levi sitting at a desk in his study. Turin, 1981. (Photo by Sergio del GrandeMondadori PortfolioMondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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Addington and Napoleon facing each other across a narrow channel, from a caricature by James Gillray. Illustration from the magazine ‘The Graphic’, 9 July 1881. (Getty Images)

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Michael Wood on… the Galloway Hoard

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The 19th-century auction that saved Shakespeare’s birthplace. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My favourite place: Cody, Wyoming

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The letters that reveal Horatio Nelson’s secrets

A boy sitting on a rock ledge above a refugee camp, October 1947. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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The bloody road to partition: 8 landmark moments in the turbulent story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A decade of domesticity: how the 1950s made the modern home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Northern lights (aurora borealis) dances over an abandoned cabin in Tromsø, Northern Norway. (Photo by Hanneke Luijting via Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Arctic Norway

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The legacy of partition: an interview with Babita Sharma. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Vaux-le-Vicomte: the inspiration for Louis XIV’s Versailles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My favourite place: Florence

Sveti Georgi (St George) a Roman-era church is Sofia's oldest preserved building

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Woodcut of a meal shared at a witches' Sabbath. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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High Victorian style garden designed by James Bateman. (Getty Images)

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Edward the Black Prince receiving from his father, King Edward III, the conquered provinces of France gained during the Hundred Years' War. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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A proponent of same-sex marriage protests outside the Houses of Parliament, 3 June 2013. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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An illustration of a public execution at Newgate, London, late 18th century. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), 1797. Artist: Abbott, Lemuel Francis (1760-1802)

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A Calcutta pavement, c1961

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Hannibal’s war elephants are defeated at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. (AKG)

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British prime minister Winston Churchill greeting the crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. From left to right: Princess Elizabeth II; the Queen Mother; Churchill, King George VI and Princess Margaret. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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