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Prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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5 myths of the Second World War's Great Escape. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The legendary Varangian (Viking mercenary) Rurik and his brothers arrive in Staraya Ladoga. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Global Vikings: how the impact of the raiders and traders went far beyond Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Falkner Street, Liverpool in the 1960s. A house on this road was the star of a 2018 BBC series. Image by Nick Hedges

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David Olusoga on house histories: "Our homes are often the sites of great dramas and tragedies". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"It was in Ireland that King John revealed himself as a monster," writes Nicholas Vincent. (Image by Alamy)

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King John: the making of a medieval monster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pocket-sized paintings: Elizabethans in miniature. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A rocky relationship: Eleanor of Woodstock with her husband, Reginald II of Guelders. (Photo by Alamy)

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The medieval rebel princesses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting of the Amritsar massacre. While Churchill described the killings as "without precedent", MP Benjamin Spoor said: "Amritsar is not an isolated event, any more than General Dyer is an isolated officer." (Photo by AKG Images)

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The Amritsar massacre: the British empire's darkest day. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Clifford's Tower stands on the site where around 150 Jews took their own lives rather than renounce their faith, in 1190. (Photo by Dreamstime)

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The persecution of Jews in medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ancient Greek theatre at Epidaurus, which boasts superb acoustics and aesthetics. (Photo by Alamy)

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My favourite place: the Peloponnese, Greece

A c1830 portrait of the scandalous but sublimely talented Lorenzo da Ponte. (Photo by Alamy)

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My history hero: Katie Derham chooses Lorenzo Da Ponte. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Brexit lessons from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Comedian Rhona Cameron and political activist Peter Tatchell help to hold a banner at an LGBT Pride event in London, 1998. (Photo by Steve Eason/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The historians’ view: is the world finally waking up to transgender issues?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Are we returning to an age of political extremes? (Illustration by Davide Bonazzi for BBC World Histories Magazine)

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The big questionAre we returning to an age of political extremes?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British military behind a barricade in Dublin, 1916. (Photo by ullstein picture via Getty Images)

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Bullets and ballot boxes: a history of Anglo-Irish relations since the Easter Rising. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sexing up history: how to study and tell the history of sex. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Woodcut of a woman who may be stoking a furnace or baking bread, printed in the 15th century. (SSPL/Getty Images)

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What was life like for a medieval housewife?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Grace Humiston was nicknamed 'Mrs Sherlock Holmes' by the American press. (Image courtesy of Brad Ricca)

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America’s ‘Mrs Holmes’: how one woman took on the cases the NYPD couldn’t solve. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Katheryn WInnick as Lagertha in season 2 of 'Vikings'. A strong belief in Viking women warriors is now rife in many quarters of cyberspace, says Judith Jesch. (Image by Alamy)

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Viking ‘warrior women’: Judith Jesch, expert in Viking studies, examines the latest evidence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria pictured c1862 during her period of mourning

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Prince Albert: the death that rocked the monarchy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Thessaloniki's Rotunda of Galerius, Greece, built in the fourth-century by Roman occupiers

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ExploreThessaloniki, Greece: Greece's cultural melting pot. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Captain James Lawrence of the Chesapeake is wounded

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The capture of the Chesapeake: how the British Royal Navy rescued its reputation in the War of 1812. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oil on canvas of the Princes in the Tower

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An enigma at the heart of British history: who killed the Princes in the Tower, Edward V and Richard Duke of York?

An example of the Zimmermann Telegram

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The Zimmermann telegram: the telegram that brought America into the First World War

Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, sits with his wife, Wallis Simpson, at the Chateau de Cands in France, 1937. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

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Edward VIII: Nazi sympathiser, playboy prince or peace-loving reformer?

'Soccer' and 'diaper' are among many 'American' words that are more faithful to the old English tongue than those used in Britain today, says James Evans. Other 'Americanisms' were used in Shakespeare's plays before the first English colony was established in Virginia. (L to R: Photos by Hulton Archive/Getty Images; DeAgostini/Getty Images; Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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From candy to diapers: the purity of American English. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The expulsion of Jews from France in 1182. Found in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The Jews of medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of Edward II. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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The big debate: was Edward II really murdered?

A cartoon from 'Punch' magazine (1903) titled 'Fidgety Joe', by Edward Linley Sambourne, depicting two parents representing the Duke of Devonshire and Arthur Balfour (centre), respective leaders of the Liberal Unionist and Conservative parties, trying to control their son, Joseph Chamberlain. In 1903, Joseph Chamberlain began his famous crusade for Imperial Preference – an issue which caused deep divisions in the government and ultimately paved the way for the Liberal Party's return to power in the 1906 general election. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Brexit, the Corn Laws and the Common Market: a brief history of Britain’s trade deals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The crew of ‘Mi Amigo’. The pilot, 23-year-old Lt John Kriegshauser, can be seen in the front row, far left. (Photo courtesy of Sheffield County Council via American Air Museum in Britain)

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Mi Amigo: the deadly WW2 bomber crash in Sheffield play park that killed 10 airmen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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