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My favourite place: Bethlehem

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Peter Snow’s six most important documents in history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photograph of Vladimir Lenin, 1901. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

First World War

Books interview with Catherine Merridale: "This was the most important railway journey made in the 20th century"

Portrait of Charlotte Brontë. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Charlotte Brontë (1816-55). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Leopold II statue. (Getty Images)

20th Century

My favourite place: the Belgian coast

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Donald Trump’s unsurprising victory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Donald Trump elected president: the historians’ verdict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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America's devious dream: Roosevelt and the Panama Canal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian

Operation Gold Rush with Dan Snow

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“I’ve been close to death nine times”: John Simpson on life as a foreign correspondent. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tudor

The secrets of 6 of Britain’s most famous castles – with Dan Jones

Roman silver denarius coins AD 72 till 200 and were offered up at the beginning of the 4th century AD, from the Nydan Bog archaeological site. (Photo by Clare Rowan)

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From bes to Bitcoin: alternative currencies in the ancient Roman world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The end game: Britain’s role in Afghanistan 1947–50. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adrian Turner as Poldark. (Photo by BBC Pictures)

Georgian

Poldark’s Cornwall: the history behind the hit series

Shakespeare’s Globe. (Loop Images/UIG via Getty Images)

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Touring London with Shakespeare, Dickens and Oscar Wilde: 7 must-see literary landmarks. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Harrying of the North. Gouache on paper, by Patrick Nicolle (1907–95). Private collection. (© Look and Learn/Bridgeman Images)

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Occupation, resistance, subjugation: the bloody aftermath of 1066. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The 1016 Danish Conquest that led to the battle of Hastings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Norman

Q&A: If the battle of Hastings had never taken place, would British history have been any different?

The battle of Stamford Bridge, 1066. (Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

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1066 – how the Viking diversion cost Harold his throne. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A dirt road in the Alabama Hills of the Eastern Sierra Nevada. The road leads to Mount Whitney and Lone Pine Peak. (Photo by Mimi Ditchie Photography/Getty Images)

Victorian

My favourite place: California, USA

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My history hero: Sam Cooke (1931–64). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting depicting the storming of the Tuileries. (Photo By DEA/G DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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Socialite, spy, saviour: Grace Dalrymple Elliott. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Viscountess Nancy Astor on her election campaign in 1919. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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The LibraryWomen pioneers in parliament. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Former US president Ronald Reagan and president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev during a meeting in Moscow, Russia, on 16 September 1990. (Photo by Wojtek Laski/Getty Images)

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Transcending the Cold War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The London & North Western Railway locomotive Jeanie Deans picking up water at Bushey Troughs, 1899. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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Europe’s century of peace and progress. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustrations by Sarah Young, based on contemporary portraits where available

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Henry VII’s brilliant upstarts: the lowborn henchmen who served the first Tudor king. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Period

My favourite place: Belgium

Medieval

The search for Henry I: what you need to know

Crew of the HMS Terror. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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Finding HMS Terror and making sense of the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Accidental explosions: gunpowder in Tudor and Stuart London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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