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View of a gay pride parade in Boston, Massachusetts, c1977. (Photo by Spencer Grant/Getty Images)

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From the ancient world to the 1969 Stonewall Riots: a brief guide to LGBT+ history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A women drives oxen pulling a loaded wagon train through the Black Hills (in South Dakota or Wyoming) in 1887

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From the real Calamity Jane to 'Madam Moustache': pioneer women of the Wild West. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lord Fiske, chairman of the Decimal Currency Board, makes a purchase at a Woolworths using the new currency on Decimal Day, 15 February 1971

20th Century

Decimal Day: when Britain said farewell to the shilling

A decoy rubber tank such as those used by the Allies during WW2.

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Masters of disguise: the story of the Allies' WW2 'Ghost Army'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dark side of fashion: a 1910 portrait of a woman wearing a hat adorned with ostrich plumes and a stuffed bird. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, owning hats like this was a sign of status for many women. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Victorian

A hatful of horror: the Victorian headwear craze that led to mass slaughter

Illustration of Despite being outnumbered, the Greeks gained vital supremacy at sea over the Persians at the battle of Salamis in 480 BC

Ancient Greece

The Peloponnesian War: Athens fights Sparta for dominance in ancient Greece

A c1520–40 portrait of Henry VI

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The miraculous afterlife of Henry VI. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1638 oil painting of Katherine Howard, Lady Aubigny

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History heroJulia Donaldson chooses Katherine Howard, Lady Aubigny (d1650). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aerial view reconstruction drawing of Maiden Castle

Iron Age

A brief guide to the British Iron Age

Harold Godwinson is proclaimed king of England in the Bayeux Tapestry. It may have been commissioned by a Norman but this magnificent artwork repeatedly acknowledges the English leader’s piety and courage. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Why is Harold Godwinson a hero of the Bayeux Tapestry?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Volunteers shovel sand in Fulham in 1941, filling bags used to protect windows from bomb blasts. Our clichés of the Blitz don’t tell the whole story, writes Lucy Worsley. (Photo by Mary Evans)

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Lucy Worsley on Blitz Spirit: the courageous stories of six Londoners. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historians have chosen their favourite historical novels.

General Modern

22 of the best historical fiction novels to help you escape to the past

This image from the Nibelungenlied manuscript shows Pilgrim welcoming Kriemhild, a fictional character described as his neice in the text (Photo by Alamy)

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The forged texts of the Middle Ages: why Europe's holy men turned to counterfeiting. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the US

Victorian

Elizabeth BlackwellThe ‘first female doctor’, who entered medicine to prove a point

An account of the story of James Allen, whose sex at birth was revealed only by an autopsy conducted after their death

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'Female husbands': the secret lives of 18th-century transgender pioneers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ruins of the once magnificent Roche Abbey

Tudor

The dissolution of the monasteries: mindless violence or planned precision?

Photo of an Anglo Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo

Anglo-Saxon

Sutton Hoo: a brief guide to the Anglo-Saxon burial site and its discovery

Smokey the bear is presented with a firefighter's helmet

General Modern

The paratrooper, the poet's pet and the real Winnie: 10 famous bears in history

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Why Charles I had to die. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sutton Hoo helmet Anglo-Saxon

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The discovery at Sutton Hoo: when the Dark Ages were lit up. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A guide to the Roman army, plus 10 facts about life in the legions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Sutton Hoo excavations are the focus of a new film, 'The Dig'. Carey Mulligan stars as Edith Pretty, and Ralph Fiennes portrays Basil Brown

Second World War

The Dig: the real history of the remarkable Sutton Hoo excavation

A fanciful engraving imagines Peter the Hermit presenting Pope Urban II (centre) with a letter from Simeon II

Medieval

Launching the First Crusade

Harriet Tubman (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: how one woman saved hundreds from hell. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene from an early rugby union game

Victorian

The history of rugby: when was the sport invented?

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Canossa: a medieval clash between church and state. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The inner courtyard of the old pottery factory at Gladstone Pottery Museum, with its five towering bottle ovens. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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History explorerThe Gladstone Pottery Museum. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Annie Gray portrait by Ian Farrell

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Annie Gray“For Queen Victoria, food was a way of exploring the world”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Student nurse Dorothy Norris

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Alphonse de Neuville's 1880 painting 'The Defence of Rorke's Drift'. The battle was to become a "supreme symbol of imperial heroism". (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

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The battle of Rorke's Drift: a stand still clad in the "myths of empire". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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