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The arrival of Sir Walter Raleigh in Virginia

Tudor

What happened to the lost colony of Roanoke Island?

General ancient history

What is history's greatest mystery?

National guardsmen confront confront citizens during Chicago's race riots

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Egyptian ships sunk at the entrance of the Suez Canal at Port Said

20th Century

Your guide to...the Suez Crisis

Carved wall scene depicting Cleopatra at Dendera Temple

Ancient Egypt

Cleopatra: what is the real legacy of the last pharaoh?

The Suez canal

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Chew Valley Hoard

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Unburied treasures: the 10 greatest discoveries made by the British public. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why was there a backlash against face masks during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Four Murder, Inc hitmen are questioned by detectives

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A photograph of Rudolph Hoess during his trial in Warsaw in 1947. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Rudolf Höss & the men behind the mass murder at Auschwitz. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An 18th-century marble relief depicting Julius Caesar invading Britain by John Deare, a British neo-classical sculptor. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Geoffrey of Monmouth: the lost voice of ancient Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An aerial view of Tintagel Castle, Cornwall. (Photo by David Goddard/Getty Images)

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ExploreTintagel Castle and the legend of King Arthur. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian

The real history behind Victorian thriller ‘The Limehouse Golem’

The battle of First Bar, 1841

Victorian

Your guide to...the Opium Wars

An illustration depicting King Arthur fighting the Saxons, from the Rochefoucauld Grail. The absence of a clear and present origin for King Arthur has created a ‘void’ which many are keen to fill, says Miles Russell. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Left: Prince Charles and Princess Diana on their wedding day, 29 July 1981. Right: Prince William and Catherine Middleton on their wedding day, 29 April 2011. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

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The 8 most famous royal weddings in British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The capture of Jerusalem in 1099

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York Minster's rose window features 16th-century Tudor Roses white on red (left) and Lancastrian Roses, red

Tudor

A brief history of the English rose

Left: Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in German-occupied Poland, in June 1944. Between May and July that year, more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to the camp complex. Right: Prisoners at Dachau celebrate the liberation of the camp by US soldiers on 29 April 1945. The camp was used again after the war to house SS personnel awaiting trial, and then German refugees. (Photos by Getty Images and Alamy)

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Aftermath of the Holocaust: how Europe dealt with the crimes of the Third Reich. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian

The death of a dream: why Europe's great year of revolution in 1848 failed

Paul Stephenson and Guy Bailey

20th Century

The great British civil rights scandal: the Bristol bus boycott

Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

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BlogMedieval(ish) matters #12: secrets of the famous Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German Heinkel HE-111 bombers fly over Britain during a mission in September 1940

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8 reasons why the Luftwaffe didn’t stand a chance of beating the RAF in the Battle of Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Phillipa Soo, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Jasmine Cephas Jones as the Schuyler sisters in 'Hamilton'. (Image: Disney+)

Georgian

The women of Hamilton: Angelica, Eliza and… Maria Reynolds

Phyllis Schlafly

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Freedom fighters: the enslaved people who fought for the abolition of slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of fighter pilots of No. 32 Squadron relax beside their Hawker Hurricane Mk I fighters at RAF Hawkinge in July 1940

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The ship ‘Jesus of Lübeck’ was used in John Hawkins’ infamous early slaving voyages, some of which were sponsored by Elizabeth I. (Image by Alamy)

Elizabethan

Were there slaves in Elizabethan England?

Taking of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, Painting by Emile Signol (1804–1892), (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

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