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Emma Dabiri“Anarcha Westcott should be hailed as a ‘mother of gynaecology’”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on history festivals“The communal retelling of history is magical. Just ask the kids!”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration depicting the migration of people across the world

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A photograph of the England team that faced Australia at the Oval in the 1896 Ashes series

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Batting for the British Empire: how Victorian cricket was more than just a game. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Migrants at a detention centre in Texas, March 2019

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The complex history of concentration camps. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Theodore Roosevelt visiting a US army camp, c1918. (Photo by The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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The great American U-turn: from isolationism to WW1 combatants. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pompeii: a remarkable window into ancient Roman life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of English admiral Lord Horatio Nelson

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Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson: a rebel with a cause

William Wallace on trial in 1305

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William Wallace: who was the Scottish rebel who defied Edward I?

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Before Chernobyl: the secrets that paved the way for disaster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne Boleyn, second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII

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Anne Boleyn's youth: how her years on the continent made her a match for Henry VIII. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'The Journey of the Magi' by Benozzo Gozzoli, commissioned by Piero the Gouty for the Palazzo Medici Riccardi. It features his son Lorenzo, who would become known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, as one of the three kings

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“They were on a level with today’s billionaires” – your guide to the Medici: bankers to the Pope, rulers of Florence, patrons of the Renaissance

Benin Bronzes at the British Museum In London

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What are the Benin Bronzes and why are they important? Explore the significance of the controversial treasures

A plaque which decorated the palace of the Benin Obas, The Obas butchers sacrificing a cow, the most prestigious animal sacrifice

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Benin: a kingdom cast in bronze, brought to ruin by Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A phantasmagoria by Belgian entertainer Etienne-Gaspard Robert, whose stage name was Etienne Robertson, 1797. (Photo by Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Phantasmagoria: creating the ‘ghosts’ of the Enlightenment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I

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Concerned that Russia was expanding its influence in the region, Britain invaded Afghanistan in 1839, ousting ruler Dost Mohammad and replacing him with Shah Shuja, who had been king from 1803–10. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Illustration representing various empires across history

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Walter Scott: an engraving after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence of the Scottish poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott

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A portrait of King Charles I

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Your guide to King Charles I, the deposed monarch who lost his head

An architectural grotesque of a woman displaying her vulva

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How naughty was the past? The hidden depths of the medieval church

Black and white image of a group of five men sat on the floor in a room in Fiji. One of them is pointing at another with a serious expression on his face.

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Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials

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Alice Roberts“Graves are like time capsules – little microcosms of prehistoric culture". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne of Denmark, wife of James I of England

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Mary, Queen of Scots during her trial at Fotheringhay Castle – where she was also executed for her alleged role in the Babington Plot (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Mary Wortley Montagu: the scourge of smallpox

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History heroSteven Berkoff chooses Laurence Olivier (1907–89)

Scientists Frederic Joliot-Curie and his wife, Irene, at work in their Paris laboratory in December 1932. The couple were among a wide-ranging group of scientists whose work paved the way for the atomic bomb. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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