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A 19th-century engraving. A young woman plays a harp, singing a duet with a man holding the music book, Duets de L’Amour. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

A survivor's guide to Georgian marriage

A portrait of Samuel Pepys, English writer and diarist. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Samuel Pepys

Henry VI of England. (Photo by iStock/Getty Images)

Henry VI may have had a "sex coach" - plus 4 more curious facts about his life

The time travelling Tudor: Anne Boleyn’s most surprising representations in film, TV and literature

President Nixon making final TV address

The 5 most notorious presidents in US history

Henry VIII’s mistresses: who else did the Tudor king sleep with?

The Oseberg ship from around AD 820 is one of the most well- preserved Viking ships ever excavated (Photo by Noe Falk Nielsen/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Viking ships: 5 lesser-known facts

Battle of Bosworth, 22 August 1485

10 things you need to know about the battle of Bosworth

Colourised print of the Lighthouse of Alexandria as imagined in the 18th century

General ancient history

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: what were they, and what happened to them?

A thin section of the Great Wall of China near Beijing

General ancient history

10 facts about the Great Wall of China

A portrait of Elizabeth I, c1565

The 10 best English queens in history

The Kray brothers

The A-Z of British gangs and gangsters

A miniature from the Codex Justinianus

Plague, famine and sudden death: 10 dangers of the medieval period

Thomas Becket murder

7 controversial saints in history

Pompeii,Italy

What was life like in ancient Pompeii? Mary Beard shares an A-Z guide

Men operate a cotton gin in Dahomey, Mississippi, in 1898

7 key questions about the transatlantic slave trade – answered

Charles Cundall’s painting ‘The Withdrawal From Dunkirk, June 1940’

Second World War

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Dunkirk

A French 15th-century covered market

10 things you (probably) didn't know about the Middle Ages

An illumination depicts medieval women embroidering

Medieval misconceptions: 12 myths about life in the Middle Ages – busted

Queen Victoria on an ivory throne

Top 11 monarchs in British history

Flying the flag: A sailor signals a merchant ship in the Thames Estuary, 1939. Allied maritime capacity was paramount in the final victory. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Second World War

WW2: Why did the Allies win the Second World War?

Edward the Confessor

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Anglo-Saxons

King Richard I, aka Richard the Lionheart. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Richard the Lionheart may not have spoken English – plus 7 more surprising facts

Frances Griffiths poses with the fairies

Fairies, rabbit births and an 'ancient' tiara: what are the greatest historical hoaxes?

Illustration of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn on their wedding day

The royal weddings of Henry VIII: Alison Weir on what came before divorced, beheaded, died...

Henry V. (© Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library / Alamy)

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Henry V and the battle of Agincourt

Who is the greatest leader in world history?

A copper engraving of Margaret Pole's execution

General History

Are these the worst botched executions in history?

American athlete Jesse Owens and German long-jumper Carl Ludwig 'Luz' Long.

5 acts of kindness that changed history

6 lesser-known facts about the Ottoman Empire