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A watercolour version of a mural showing Henry VIII (front left) with his father, Henry VII, his wife Jane Seymour (front right) and his mother, Elizabeth of York. The mural, which aimed to validate Henry's right to the throne, adorned Whitehall Palace before being destroyed by fire. (Photo by Bridgeman Royal Collection)

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The then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump taking part in the final presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, 19 October 2016. Trump repeatedly claimed that the election was “rigged” against him. (Photo by Joe Raedle/AFP/Getty Images)

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Mosaic showing gladiators, Roman Civilization, 4th century

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Bread and circuses: what happened in the amphitheatres of the Roman empire?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Marble relief depicting the Praetorian Guard, legionnaires and elite soldiers. In the Louvre, Paris, France. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

Roman

The Praetorian Guard: the emperors’ fatal servants

Photographs documenting the facial reconstruction of a soldier whose cheek was extensively wounded during the Battle of the Somme

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Night view of people jammed into Times Square, New York, celebrating the end of the war in Europe. (Photo by Herbert Gehr/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty

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Hiroshima.

Second World War

The end of WW2: 5 articles you can read right now

Mural of the battle of Actium from 1600

Roman

Actium, 31 BC: the beginning of the end for Mark Antony and Cleopatra

The Parnethon, Athens

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Berlin Wall

20th Century

The Berlin Wall: everything you need to know

Painting of Martin Luther translating the New Testament into German vernacular in 1521 (Photo by Fine Art Photographic Library/Corbis via Getty Images)

Tudor

Your guide to Martin Luther, the theologian who launched the Reformation

A 19th-century painting of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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The real Harlots: Hallie Rubenhold on Covent Garden's courtesans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Attila the Hun

General ancient history

Who was Attila the Hun, the barbarian ruler who terrorised the Romans?

A bust of Roman dictator Julius Caesar

Roman

Julius CaesarYour guide to the Roman dictator

A medieval king dining

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Illustration of Venetian merchant Marco Polo travels along the Silk Road to China

General ancient history

Your guide to...the Silk Road

Dr Michael Mosley holds up a tapeworm

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Sunbathers on Blackpool beach in 1954. (Credit: John Chillingworth/Getty Images)

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Caravans, spa towns and seaside resorts: a brief history of British holidays. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

First World War

WW1 poets5 famous figures you should know about

Magic stone in Laraibina village in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea on September 27, 2009. This magic stone is hidden in a tree in Laraibina village. It is very useful to call the rain or to make some magic actions on people. It is forbidden to touch it, only the witch doctor can hold it. The same kind of stones exists in Vanuatu. (Photo by Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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Death in the New Forest: how King William II met his demise. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian heroine Grace Darling (1815–1842) with her father, lighthouse keeper William Darling. They are rowing from the Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands off Northumberland, to rescue the passengers of the stricken ship 'SS Forfarshire'. (Photo by Nigel Dobinson/Getty Images)

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A contemporary painting shows Parisians seizing weapons from the Hôtel des Invalides on 14 July 1789, ahead of the storming of the Bastille later that day. Before revolution swept through Paris, peasants across the country were abolishing a whole social order from below.

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Black Lives Matter activists in Seattle, June 2020. “Accounts of the past have failed to properly address persecution,” says Peter Frankopan. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)

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What is history's greatest mystery?

Medieval

What has been voted history’s greatest mystery?

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Alexander the Great

Ancient Greece

Where is Alexander the Great buried? And other questions about his death…

A profile portrait of the Victorian novelist and poet Emily Jane Brontë (1818–48), now in the National Portrait Gallery. Brontë is best known for her novel 'Wuthering Heights', published in 1847. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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10 facts about Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë

Portrait of the Bronte sisters

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The Brontës: the unfortunate and unlikely tale of the world’s "greatest literary sisters"

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