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A view of Mount Everest

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Mystery on Everest: did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit in 1924?

Elizabeth I arrives in Tilbury

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The Spanish Armada: one of history’s biggest fibs?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration from Dante's ‘Inferno', depicting thieves tormented in hell by serpents.

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A brief history of the afterlife

The bikini was showcased to the world for the first time in July 1946. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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8 historical events that happened in July

A girl, with her brother on her back, trudges past a stalled American tank, South Korea, June 1951. (Photo by Alamy)

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How we forgot the Korean War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A gilt-bronze effigy of Henry III in what is his greatest legacy, Westminster Abbey. (Photo by Alamy)

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Henry III in his own words: the medieval king as you’ve never seen him before. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Who’s holding the baby? How working mothers navigated the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A bust of Ludwig van Beethoven before the original handwritten score for his Piano Sonata no. 28 in A major, Op. 101. The composer stood at the vanguard of a new artistic movement that celebrated emotion and nature. (Getty Images/Alamy/Dreamstime)

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The soundtrack of Beethoven’s life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1935: Beatrice Shilling sits astride her Norton motorcycle. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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History heroCathy Newman chooses Beatrice Shilling (1909–1990). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France meet (in marquee, top) at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, June 1520. “For all their expressions of friendship,” writes Glenn Richardson, “the two kings spent most of the summit attempting to outshine one another”. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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Fields of the Cloth of Gold: the greatest show on earth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John Nichol is a historian, author and RAF veteran who was captured and paraded on Iraqi television during the Gulf War, before returning to active service. He has since written several works of military history as well as a number of novels, and is a regular commentator on military affairs

Second World War

Your guide to the Lancaster bomber

Battle of Culloden

General History

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Scottish history

Queen Emma and her sons, miniature in 'Encomium Emmae reginae', mid 11th century, British Library (Photo by Getty Images)

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Are women at the heart of the action in the Norman Conquest?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scene from the the Westminster Tournament Roll, commissioned by Henry VIII to document the lavish jousting tournament held to celebrate the birth of his son with Catherine of Aragon

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What if…Henry VIII's first son had lived?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dan Jones by the River Medway at Rochester in Kent. Jones is the presenter of 'Walking Britain’s Roman Roads', which aired on 1 July 2020 at 9pm on 5Select

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Exploring Britain’s Roman roads with historian Dan Jones. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mel Gibson in a scene from the film 'Braveheart'

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Good drama, bad history: 11 historically inaccurate films you need to watch

General Modern

Postcards from the past: a selection of entries from our lockdown competition

Pyongyang wreckage, Korean War

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The Korean War “created a blood debt that is crucial to understanding North Korean behaviour ever since”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The coronation of Philippa of Hainault

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How did Philippa of Hainault, wife of Edward III, become one of medieval England’s best-loved queens?

A statue of Robert the Bruce Statue at Stirling Castle, Scotland. (Dreamstime)

Medieval

The battle of Bannockburn: Robert Bruce's fight for freedom

A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)

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How have nuclear weapons shaped global politics? 10 key moments in the post-war atomic world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Crowds flock to the beach at Hastings in August 1938. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

20th Century

Summer holiday revolution: when were Britons first allowed to take paid holiday?

Prospectors pan for gold in Siberia during the 19th century.

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Where did the major gold rushes of the 19th century happen? And why were people so keen to join the gold rush?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prospecting towns like Dawson boomed during the gold rush.

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The dark side of the 19th-century gold rush. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1962: Military personnel in a car pass through the US Army's Checkpoint Charlie on the Berlin Wall. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

20th Century

A brief history of Checkpoint Charlie

Despite popular misconception, Gladiatorial fighting was not the most popular entertainment in Ancient Rome. (Photo by Alamy)

Roman

A brief guide to ancient Rome and the Romans, plus 9 fascinating facts

American jazz singer Helen Forrest performing with trumpeter Harry James (1916-1983), c1945. (Photo by Metronome/Getty Images)

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History heroDame Vera Lynn chooses Helen Forrest (1917–99). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton

Stuart

Isaac Newton: life, discoveries, rivalries and the truth about the apple

Francis Drake portrait

Tudor

Francis Drake’s forgotten role in the English slave trade

Violence erupted in New Orleans, and white southerners killed and injured more than 100 freed slaves during a riot against reconstruction plans. (Image by Alamy)

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Rebuilding America after the Civil War: what was the Reconstruction era and why did it fail?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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