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Shortlist announced for 2017 Wolfson History Prize

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Historian Lisa Jardine dies aged 71

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This week's history news round-up

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Why Henry I could be the next ‘car park king’

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Richard III theme park to open near Leicester

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Was the skeleton in the Leicester car park really Richard III?.

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Second World War heroes ‘had most sex appeal’

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Napoleon’s surrender: letter begging Prince Regent for mercy after Waterloo defeat to go on show in Windsor

Revealed: Racton Man was Bronze Age warrior chief

After Richard III, is it time to dig up other famous skeletons?

Richard III: latest DNA study ‘doesn’t prove bones belong to former king’

Richard III had lavish diet of swan and wine, new forensic study reveals

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History teachers' body reacts to Michael Gove's education secretary replacement

Revealed: the secrets of the Tudor cross-dressers

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Bid to uncover battle of Hastings remains

Richard III's lost chapel 'has been found'

Historians identify 'spot where Richard III was killed in battle'

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Revealed: the British First World War officer who married a nurse who wanted him dead

Historical sex objects to feature in classrooms

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Captain Scott's 'lost' Antarctic pictures saved

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Win a pair of tickets to Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts I & II, including dinner and overnight stay in a boutique hotel

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'Lawrence of Arabia's saddlebag' to go on display

Richard III’s hair and eye colour ‘to be revealed’