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Marcus Aurelius: Rome’s reluctant killer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Was James VI and I murdered?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Did the Tudors invent the Wars of the Roses?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

National English: the language that would save England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain’s illegal war: the story of the battle of Copenhagen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cnut's invasion of England: setting the scene for the Norman conquest. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Post pandemic: how the years after the Black Death briefly became a ‘golden age’ for medieval women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle of Marston Moor: what happened?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emma Dabiri"Harriet Jacobs’ writing transports readers to the world of Southern slavery". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fighting for freedom: the storming of the Bastille and the French Revolution

“His flesh had rotted, and his bed was full of worms”: 5 of history's most eccentric hermits. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

Tobruk: 8 facts about the WW2 confrontation in North Africa

Game of Queens: when women ruled Renaissance Europe

Joseph Bazalgette: how the man who transformed London paved the way for your loo

Medieval monarchy timeline: from the Norman Conquest to the Tudors

7 things you didn’t know a medieval princess could do

5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Plantagenets

The history of the Kurds in Iraq: "the largest people never to have achieved statehood". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The real Eleanor of Aquitaine: 5 myths about the medieval queen

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about the houses of Lancaster and York. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fred Perry: the icon and the outcast. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How to run a medieval dynasty: survival secrets of ruling royal families. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bound for Britain: your guide to the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush

Reassessing Edward I: battle-hungry aggressor or dutiful conqueror?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The untold story of India’s WW2 prisoners of war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Norman women: the power behind the thrones. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

7 medieval kings of England you should know about

Margaret of Anjou: a brief guide to the 'She-Wolf of France'

The first great polar expedition: Fridtjof Nansen’s 1888 traverse of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What were the ancient Olympics like? Take a visit to the Games of 436 BC

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