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The real history behind 'Poldark' series three: episode one

Oswald Mosley receives a fascist salute from his followers in October 1936

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British Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher faces the press outside London's Europa Hotel following her victory in the leadership election, 20 February 1975. (Photo by Frank Barratt/Keystone/Getty Images)

General Modern

Bolting to the ballot box: Snap elections through history

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Britain’s road to democracy: slow and not always steady. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Georgian

A brief history of... the Derby

The Beatles arrive in Japan

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1966: the Beatles' tumultuous world tour. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

StuartvideoVideo: Historian Dan Jones on the Great Fire of London 1666

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Should historical place names be changed to fit modern values? Historians debate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Myth-making and belonging: the coins of the Roman provinces. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Sarah Young

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Ælfthryth: England’s first queen

Portrait of Richard Wagner, 1883. (Photo By DEA/A Dagli Orti/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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Elizabeth Fry visiting Newgate Prison, 1926. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The Knights of the Round (Miniature from La Quête du Saint Graal et la Mort d'Arthus), c1220. Found in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Portico entrance of Oxford's famous Ashmolean Museum. (Dreamstime)

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History explorerThe history of British museums. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Giralda tower and cathedral seen across the Plaza de la Alianza, Seville, Spain. (Getty Images)

Medieval

My favourite place: Seville, Spain

Travelling Mass set, c1535, consisting of a silver-gilt chalice; a paten (Communion plate) and a glass bottle for wine, with a leather box in which to carry them. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Tudor

Henry VIII's savage Reformation

The operation

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John Hunter and the horrors of 18th-century surgery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A series of images depicting Victorian women wearing crinolines, c1860. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian

Stitching the fashions of the 19th century: who dressed the 19th-century elite?

Medieval

8 remarkable historical events that happened in May

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From dragons to unicorns: finding fantastic beasts in ancient history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Armoured cars unloaded in Shanghai in 1927

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China’s public image war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Scandal, conspiracy and the affair of the poisons: inside the court of Louis XIV. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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'Their Finest' and the British films that inspired the home front during the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Veteran cars – a 1898 Benz and an early Panhard – outside Glover Brothers Cycle Makers, c1900. (Photo by National Motor Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Verona skyline with river Adige, bridges, Santa Anastasia Church and Torre dei Lamberti or Lamberti Tower at dawn view from Castel San Pietro, Italy. (Getty Images)

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My favourite place: Verona, Italy

Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, a PPP candidate (Pakistan People's Party), campaigning from the sun roof of a car. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

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Procession of Charles II between the Tower of London and Westminster on the eve of his coronation, 1661. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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A view of Hampton Court Palace, London. (Getty Images)

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Simon Thurley on the architectural history of the Tudors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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Demonstrators block the gates of the Greenham Common Airbase, tied together with string. The demonstrators were members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) group. (Getty Images)

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