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Battle of Verdun. French trench on the front lines, 1916. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

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British soldiers while away the hours in a photograph captioned "The long, long Burmese day", c1892. Many imperial troops went decades without firing a shot in anger. (Photo by National Media Museum/Royal Photographic Society/SSPL/Getty Images)

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Britain’s bored imperialists. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Catherine Hanley talks to Ellie Cawthorne about Matilda, the legitimate daughter of Henry I. (Photographed for BBC History Magazine by Jeni Nott).

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Catherine Hanley on Matilda: "Honestly, if I were her, I'd have wanted to put my fist through a wall". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British Artist Ivon Hitchens. (Image by Bridgeman)

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My history hero: Chris Packham chooses Ivon Hitchens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

As a child king, Henry VI – shown in a c16th-century portrait – learned the lessons of kingship from books. Unfortunately, those books didn't extol the merits of ruthlessness and practising realpolitik. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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How Henry VI's love of peace cost him the throne – and his life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rogues' gallery: Images of criminals incarcerated in prisons including Wormwood Scrubs and Newcastle City Gaol, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Their crimes included stealing clothes, money, boots, and leather. Recent research into Victorian mugshot books – and increasing digital access to court and prison records – offers a different picture of Victorian criminality to the one painted by writers such as Charles Dickens, argues Heather Shore. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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Dark secrets of the Victorian Underworld: did hardened criminals stalk Britain's cities?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The regions of Britain in 1635, before the 1707 Acts of Union that united England and Scotland. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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“The anglocentric view we have of British history is unsustainable,” says Misha Glenny. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Married architects Alison and Peter Smithson at work, October 1961. The pair were architect members of the Independent Group and had an impact on the British urban scene via what became known as ‘New Brutalism’. (Photo by Davies/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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Roman mosaic of a dog, bearing the legend 'Cave Canem' underneath, from Pompeii, from Naples National Museum's collection, 1st century. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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6 things you (probably) didn’t know about animals in ancient Rome

Tudor

10 famous people in history and their bizarre pets

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Queen Victoria’s pets and animals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fidel Castro addresses delegates of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, September 1960. (Photo by Tommy Weber/AFP/Getty Images)

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How should history remember Fidel Castro?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle. (Image Credit: BBC/Douglas Road Productions/Carlton Dixon)

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“A platform to ask ‘was it really like that?’”: Sir Lenny Henry on new Windrush drama

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Why Churchill’s reputation is still on the line. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. (Illustration by Femke de Jong for BBC History Magazine)

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A painting of America’s founding fathers inside the National Archives in Washington DC. (Photo by Visions of America/UIG via Getty Images)

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A history of United States government shutdowns. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Italian-French poet and campaigner for women's rights, Christine de Pizan (1364–c1430). (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Not so silent: the unquiet women of history

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The downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Code-breaking personnel at Bletchley Park, 1943. (Photo by Bletchley Park Trust/SSPL/Getty Images)

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Sir Robert Peel (1788–1850) was a British statesman who twice served as Conservative prime minister, between 1834–35 and 1841–46. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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A British military post in a street in Dublin during the Easter Uprising, 1916. (Photo by ullstein picture via Getty Images)

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The history of Ireland: 11 milestone moments

Russian troops hoist the red banner of the Soviet Army after Stalingrad

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The Beatles with Ed Sullivan

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Photo of Enoch Powell being escorted by police

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The Rivers of Blood speech: what was it and how did it divide Britain?

Relief showing lion hunt on horseback.

General ancient history

Ashurbanipal 'the Great', the Lion of Assyria

Danny Dyer’s Right Royal Family. (Image Credit: BBC/Wall to Wall Media/Jack Coathupe)

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Danny Dyer is “making people think again” about history, say historians

Irish rugby fans in London for the international match between Ireland and England at Twickenham Stadium, 13 February 1937. (Photo by E Dean/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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Rugby warriors: the rugby-playing heroes of the First and Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull. (Photo by Francis G. Mayer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

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Alexander Hamilton vs Thomas Jefferson: the rise and fall of America's founding fathers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Endurance, the ship of Ernest Shackleton

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