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Painting depicting the Battle of Naseby

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A mermaid combing her hair

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Tails from the deep: separating the real folklore of mermaids from Disney stories

A 19th-century painting of Queen Henrietta Maria fleeing England as the Civil Wars turn against Charles I (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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From the home front to the front line: what were the roles of women in the Civil War?

In a 19th-century painting by Charles Landseer, Oliver Cromwell reads Charles I’s explosive correspondence captured at Naseby. It revealed the king was conspiring to gain Catholic support for his cause (Photo by ART Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)

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10 key battles of the Civil War

A painting of the battle of Naseby

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The New Model Army: how Oliver Cromwell’s radical fighting force won the Civil War

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Elizabeth Cromwell

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Charles I in Parliament in 1642, where he made an abortive attempt to arrest five MPs, from a 19th-century painting by Charles West Cope (Photo by The Print Collector/Alamy Stock Photo)

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8 reasons why the Civil War broke out. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Members of the Sealed Knot stage a re-enactment of the battle of Nantwich, fought during the Civil Wars in 1644 (Photo by OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

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An illustration of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, fleeing from battle after attempting to unseat his Catholic uncle, King James II and VII, from the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland (Photo by De Luan/Alamy Stock Photo)

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The Monmouth Rebellion of 1685: your guide to the a duke's failed bid to overthrow his uncle, James II and VI. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Painting of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn. Several servants as well as Cardinal Wolsey look on.

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German prisoners of war arrive on British soil in 1944, bound for camps somewhere in England (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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The German Great Escape? The tale of the WW2 Island Farm escape attempt

The Duke of Cumberland leans awat from two ghostly men, wearing white robes and wielding razor blades, as smoke rises around them

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Ukrainian soldiers fire at Russian troops, May 2023

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Joseph Chamberlain (far right) pictured with his sons Neville (far left) and Austen, daughter Hilda (front left) and third wife, Mary Endicott (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Allied troops hide from enemy shelling during the battle of Caen. The town was finally captured after several weeks of intensive fighting. The white markings on their shoulders were later added to the photograph by a censor to hide the name of the battalion. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images)

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MedievalvideoThe crusader statesWhat was life like?

A joint British-Jewish patrol in Palestine during the 1936–39 Arab Revolt (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

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Men kiss in a medieval illumination.

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Henry III of England.

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Elizabeth is borne from Westminster Abbey in a gold coach first used for the state opening of parliament by George III in 1762. (Getty Images)

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William Caxton shows off his new press in Westminster to Edward IV in a 19th-century painting (Photo by Artepics / Alamy Stock Photo)

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MedievalvideoGeoffrey Chaucer5 key things to know

Paris became a charnel house during the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre, as shown in this painting by François Dubois (Photo By DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

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Catholics vs HuguenotsYour guide to the French Wars of Religion

(l-r): Thomas Turgoose, Charlotte Ockelton, Sophie McShera and Michael Socha star as members of the Hartley clan in BBC Two series The Gallows Pole (Photo by BBC Pictures)

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Prime minister Ramsay MacDonald (left) and chancellor Philip Snowden (right) at 10 Downing Street in 1929, two years before they formed a controversial National Government (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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A 1380s depiction of the Knights of the Round Table. Their heroics were routinely celebrated at medieval feasts (Photo by Heritage Images / Contributor / Getty Images)

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A uniformed US soldier plants American flags at gravesites on Memorial Day

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The waxing crescent moon rises over frosty rocks near the small settlement of Sligachan, on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.

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