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Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: your guide to the poet’s life, work and love

Triumphant Death chases Londoners from their city

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How 17th-century London reacted to the Great Plague. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Newark Castle flanked by the river Trent. To say that King John's death here in 1216 was little-lamented is something of an understatement. "With John's foul deeds all England is stinking, as does hell, to which he is now sinking," wrote the chronicler Matthew Paris. (Getty Images)

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King John and the French invasion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ammonite and the real fossil hunter Mary Anning. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Excerpt from the Textus Roffensis showing Christ and a dragon

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The Textus Roffensis: a medieval manuscript to rival Magna Carta

A union flag flown on HMS Queen Charlotte at the battle known as the Glorious First of June, 1794

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Q&AWhen was the Union Jack or Union flag created?

Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and known as the Kingmaker, meets his end at the battle of Barnet in 1471

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Q&AWhy was Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, known as the Kingmaker?

Battle of Barnet: This lively, if inaccurate, 15th- century illustration of the shows a coronet- wearing Edward skewering Warwick with his lance

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The battle of Barnet, 1471: the Wars of the Roses clash that killed the Kingmaker. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan) in Francis Lee's new film 'Ammonite'. (Photo courtesy of Lionsgate UK / See-Saw Films)

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The real history behind Ammonite

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Hate mail & mutilated horses: Conan Doyle investigates. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Elizabethans: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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George Edalji and the Great Wyrley killings: a real-life Sherlock Holmes mystery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Battle Of Towton, fought on 29 March 1461, was brutal clash in the driving snow fought during the Wars of the Roses

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The battle of Towton: did the biggest, bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil take place during the Wars of the Roses?

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The Clifford’s Tower massacre & medieval anti-Semitism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edgar the Aetheling is notably missing from the Bayeux Tapestry

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Professor Stephen Hawking in his office at the University of Cambridge, 2003

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The 1815–46 Corn Laws: your guide to the crisis and why they were repealed

Nell Gwyn was a mistress of King Charles II

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Nell GywnThe orange girl who became a king's mistress in Restoration England

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Why treason was so unforgivable in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Josephine Baker with her adopted children. She called them the ‘Rainbow Tribe’. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Memorable mothers: history’s most remarkable mums. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Anning was an extremely prolific fossil hunter

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Mary Anning: the woman who hunted dinosaurs

Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon

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Prince Arthur, Catherine of Aragon, and Henry VIII: a story of early Tudor triumph and tragedy

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6 articles about…the Victorian era

A painting of Henry IV, housed in the National Portrait Gallery, London. English earls, Scottish kings, French dukes and a Welsh prince all tried to unseat Henry, yet this most resilient of medieval monarchs prevailed over them all. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Henry IV: the usurper king

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: poet, activist, trailblazer, runaway. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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