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The four candidates for the Labour leadership taking part in a hustings in The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, in July 2015 in Glasgow, Scotland. From left: Liz Kendall; Andy Burnham; Yvette Cooper and Jeremy Corbyn. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

The historians' view: What does the future hold for the Labour party?

Tony Blair asks permission of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government

Elizabeth II and her prime ministers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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EU referendum: how significant is Britain’s vote to leave? Historians debate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A prodigy in England: Lucy Worsley on Mozart’s London odyssey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Was Sarah Guppy the real inventor of the Clifton Suspension Bridge?

The most popular historical figures you've (probably) never heard of

History’s most fascinating muses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of Sadhu holy men at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, one of the most sacred Hindu temples in Nepal. (Photo by Getty Images)

My favourite place: Kathmandu, Nepal

The Mar Elian Catholic monastery burnt by Islamic State militants in 2016. (Photo by Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images)

History under attack: the destruction of antiquities in the Middle East. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire. (Photo by Getty Images)

History explorerThe Second Barons’ War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gold medallion of Constantius I, from the mint of Trier. It depicts Constantius celebrating his victory over Alectus in AD 296. Constantius is shown on a horse at the gates of London, welcomed by Britannia. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The LibraryThe first British Empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lyndon B Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

My history hero: Lyndon Johnson (1908–73). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Miners on strike after the decision from the High Court of Justice to seize all assets of the labor unions, 1984. (Photo by Alain Nogues/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

There was more to the 80s than Maggie. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

David Reynolds, Professor of international history at Christ’s College, Cambridge. (Photo by Alamy)

Issue 200 special: “History books will need to be objects of desire”

Vikings: an interview with the show’s creator and writer Michael Hirst. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A detail of the decorative carving on the side of the Oseberg cart c850 AD. A woman with streaming hair apparently restrains a man’s sword arm as he strikes at a horseman accompanied by a dog. Below is a frieze of intertwined serpentine beasts. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Viking women: raiders, traders and settlers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bust of Homer c850 BC. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

“We are all Trojans...”: Homer’s poetic legacy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle for the US Constitution: how the 14th Amendment is under threat

Behind the scenes of Suzannah Lipscomb’s 'Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home'

BBC History Magazine

My favourite place: Kathmandu

A photograph of Queen Victoria c1887. (Alexander Bassano/Spencer Arnold/Getty Images)

General History

9 of history's best quotes

Our Kind of Traitor: an interview with former MI6 intelligence officer Nicholas Anderson

Illustration by Arthur Rackham to the play ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ by William Shakespeare. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

The fairy menace. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kate Summerscale. (Photo by Fran Monks)

The wicked boy: the mystery of a Victorian child murderer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. (Photo by Oliver Duerre/EyeEm/Getty Images)

Second World War

My favourite place: Berlin

The Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London. (Photo by Dreamstime)

The LibraryHistory explorer: the golden age of sail. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of William Shakespeare by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

My history hero: William Shakespeare (1564–1616). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 1954 advertisement for Cooper's Y-Front. (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A revealing history of underwear. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Anne Boleyn

Did Eustace Chapuys really despise Anne Boleyn?

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Peaky Blinders: behind the scenes with creator Steven Knight. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.