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My favourite historical places: Professor Peter Barry

The coffin containing the remains of Richard III. The skeleton of the king was discovered in 2012 in the foundations of Greyfriars Church, Leicester, 500 years after he was killed during the battle of Bosworth. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

The discovery of Richard III's remains

1914: Why Britain had to go to war.

My history hero: Robert Baden Powell (1857–1941).

Ye olde travel guide: Caracas 1783.

American poet Ezra Pound, a major figure of the early modernist movement. (Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images)

The march of the Green Shirts.

Beaumaris Gaol, Anglesey, Wales. The prison could accommodate up to 30 inmates under the so-called 'silent system', in which inmates slept in separate cells at night but worked and attended chapels and classes together during the day. (Ashley Cooper via Getty Images)

History Explorer: 19th-century prison reform.

Top 5 Jane Austen recipes.

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Should we rewrite Jane Austen’s classic novels?

My favourite historical places: Professor Robert Bickers

Who's the best-dressed Briton in history?.

Diary of the judge who hated Hitler to be published for first time

Books interview: Herodotus's 'The Histories'.

"People in the Middle Ages coped better with death than we do"

History Explorer: Neolithic treatment of the dead.

My History Hero: Franklin D Roosevelt (1882- 1945).

The June 1933 cover of the Radio Times. (Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Changing times: 90 years of the Radio Times

The princes in the Tower: why was their fate never explained?

Ye olde travel guide: Heidelberg 1618.

Gertrude Bell: adventurer, diplomat, mountaineer and anti-suffragette.

First World War

Telling jokes in the trenches: First World War newspaper The Wipers Times celebrated in new BBC drama

Merchants and lower-ranking gentlemen often put pen to paper themselves, but wealthy men and gentlewomen were more likely to employ a scribe. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How to send a letter in medieval England.

Flodden 1513: the biggest ever Anglo-Scottish battle.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, displayed remarkable leadership of the British army at the battle of Waterloo. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Waterloo: the historians' verdict.

An engraved depiction of John Lilburne, who "stands as a towering icon of the liberal tradition". (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: John Lilburne (c1615-57)

Ye olde travel guide: Thessalonica 1423

Marston Moor, near York, was the site of the greatest battles of the Civil War – the battle of Marston. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

History explorer: the Civil War.

Books interview: the life and career of Benjamin Disraeli.