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Princess Feodora (left), half-sister of Queen Victoria (right)

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Princess Feodora: the little-known sister of Queen Victoria

An Australian Sea Shanty band, c1988

Georgian

A brief history of sea shanties

RuPaul – who produces and presents the reality TV show bearing his name – performs during a Gay Rights March in Washington, DC, April 1993. Over 500,000 LGBTQ+ activists and allies participated in a gathering organised to end discrimination. (Photo by Porter Gifford/Liaison)

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From Fanny and Stella to Ru Paul's Drag Race: a short history of drag. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Supporters of Donald Trump protest in Pennsylvania as the state’s electoral college casts its votes, December 2020

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The constitutional crisis behind 2021's presidential transition. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of a mummy with mask

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Edward Jenner performs a vaccination, in an 1802 cartoon that lampoons the notion that being vaccinated will turn you into a cow

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The race for a cure: how we found vaccines for 4 of history's most dangerous diseases. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Mourning Martin Luther King JrThe life and legacy of the civil rights leader. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving depicting London's Piccadilly Circus heaving with crowds on their way to The Great Exhibition of 1851. A banner reading 'God save the Queen and Prince Albert' has been strung across the street. Within the Crystal Palace some 100,000 objects were displayed – taking up ten miles of space – the work of 15,000 contributors. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

General Modern

From the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Britain: the decline and fall of the British empire

English cavalry attacking the Sikh at the Battle of Aliwal

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Victoria the warrior queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava during the Crimean War

Victorian

Victorians and war: which conflicts were fought during the Victorian era?

Richard III

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Richard Nixon resigns

General Modern

Which US presidents have been impeached? A brief history of presidential impeachment

The city Bhaktapur looming over the Kathmandu valley

20th Century

The hippy trail: a pan-Asian journey through history

Félix Kir in 1947, when he was the mayor of Dijon

Second World War

History heroSimon Farnaby chooses Félix Kir (1876–1968)

Extract from Domesday Book.

Norman

Your guide to the Domesday Book: the most important document in English history?

Muslim women embrace after Ramadan ends, 2012

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"Does every generation have to prove itself in Britain?" Kavita Puri on the experiences of South Asians in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women queue for potatoes in a greengrocer's shop in London, c1945. (Photo by Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer/IWM via Getty Images)

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Saving food, saving lives: rationing in the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

20th Century

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Helen Keller

Professor Robert Tombs, Fellow of French history at St John's College

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"Both sides of the Brexit debate have got things wrong about our history": Robert Tombs on Britain's complex relationship with Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

(L to R) Isaac Newton, Henry VIII and Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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A cartoon depicting the Duke of Wellington, who demands attention outside a house, while the Duke of Argyll, inside with Harriette Wilson, pretends not to recognise him.

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Gary Oldman plays Winston Churchill in the 2018 Oscar winner 'Darkest Hour'.

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Think pieceOur dangerous devotion to the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill on roller skates

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Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn Ironside, son Ragnar Lothbrok and king of Kattegat

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Vikings Season 6: plot recap, plus 8 historical questions answered

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Sobriety, royal presents and Victorian-era musings on failure: an unexpected history of New Year. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rege-Jean Page as Simon Basset and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton

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Bridgerton season one: “A period drama like no other”

Victorian

Charles Darwin and the Beagle: how the voyage transformed our understanding of the world

British from the 11th Brigade 4th division and German soldiers at Ploegsteert in Belgium on Christmas Day 1914. (Photo by The Art Archive/Alamy)

First World War

Did the First World War Christmas truce football match really happen?

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Charles Dickens: prison reformer, scourge of capitalists, champion of the poor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Workers repair Fleet sewer in 1854. London’s creaking sewer network sparked anxieties over what lay beneath the sprawling capital. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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