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'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' (2020): Viola Davis as Ma Rainey. (Photo by David Lee/Netflix)

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Who was Ma Rainey, “mother of the blues”?

The effigy of Eleanor of Castile on her tomb

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The love lives of medieval queens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Habsburg dynasty: Maria Theresa, her husband Francis I

Medieval

The Habsburgs: the dynasty that wouldn’t die

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Invention or adaptation: what did the Romans really do for us?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Margaret Macmillan

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"To destroy a library is to erase part of the cultural memory of humankind": Margaret MacMillan on war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Qing dynasty emperor Kangxi

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The voices of China: 5 perspectives on an extraordinary past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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2020: the historians’ verdict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vahalla is depicted as a round-topped building in this funerary stone from 8th-century Sweden

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Valhalla: fighting and feasting in the Viking warrior afterlife

A helmet from a chieftain's grave in 10th-century Norway. (Images by Getty)

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Inside the Viking mind: the view of the Vikings' world from 5 perspectives. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A miller and a donkey

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9 things you could do with a medieval ass. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Marble bust of Nero

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Rethinking Nero: was the Roman emperor really so bad?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Canterbury Cathedral

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How Thomas Becket's feud with Henry II led to murder. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Richard the radical: was Richard III a champion of the people?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nelson's passion for Emma – with whom he had a six-year affair – is writ large in his letters

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Nelson in his own words. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Georg Elser, a little-known carpenter-turned-assassin whose daring attempt to kill Hitler almost succeeded

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Georg Elser: the man who nearly assassinated Hitler. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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David Olusoga“The Victorians constructed a great empire of abstinence”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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History heroAndrew Marr chooses Charles Darwin (1809–82). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

One of the burial mounds at Sutton Hoo

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Portchester Castle in Hampshire was intended as a coastal defence against raiders. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The collapse of Roman Britain: what happened, plus 9 places which tell us more. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace, plus 5 more Roman mosaics you can explore in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George Washington Carver in a laboratory

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History heroGillian Burke chooses George Washington Carver (c1864–1943). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wrens operating the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park, 1943

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Your guide to Bletchley Park, the key WW2 decryption centre

This 15th-century painting from a manuscript shows men fishing in a river. In medieval England, eels were both meals and de facto currency. (Photo by Bridgeman)

Medieval

Fishing for gold: how eels powered the medieval economy

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The death of John Lennon: what happened?

Almond Hedgehog: A debonair addition to the hostess’s armoury in the Georgian period. (Illustration by Clair Rossiter for BBC History Magazine)

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Jane Austen's fiction: an accurate portrayal of life in Georgian England?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fern Riddell.

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Fern Riddell"Can we call the suffragettes terrorists? Absolutely". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rushton Triangular Lodge was ostensibly a warrener's lodge but the biblical references that adorn its three exterior walls tell a different story. (Photo English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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History explorer: Catholic resistance to Elizabeth I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alfred Nobel (Bettmann/Getty Images)

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The history of the Nobel Prizes

This engraving by William Hogarth shows the final instalment of a sequence of artworks called 'The Four Stages of Cruelty' (1751). In it, the fictional Tom Nero is being dissected for anatomical studies at Cutlerian theatre near Newgate prison after being hanged for murder. Nero looks like the Dead-Alive, as though he can see and smell his own executed body on the dissection table. The chief physician sits in the centre on a high-backed chair, resembling a high court judge. He is surrounded by various medical men, including penal surgeons, who did gallows work. The skeletons of dissected criminals were usually refused a Christian burial and so were displayed as specimens, as can be seen top left and top right. (Photo by Guildhall Library/Getty Images)

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Surviving the gallows: the Georgian hangings that didn't go to plan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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