Early comic panel illustration

England

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Paul Delaroche's impression of Lady Jane Grey's execution

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Who was Lady Jane Grey? The tragic story of the 'Nine Days Queen'

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A c1520–40 portrait of Henry VI

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A c1638 oil painting of Katherine Howard, Lady Aubigny

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Harold Godwinson is proclaimed king of England in the Bayeux Tapestry. It may have been commissioned by a Norman but this magnificent artwork repeatedly acknowledges the English leader’s piety and courage. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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17th-century London: a city shaped by catastrophe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Volunteers shovel sand in Fulham in 1941, filling bags used to protect windows from bomb blasts. Our clichés of the Blitz don’t tell the whole story, writes Lucy Worsley. (Photo by Mary Evans)

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Mary Tudor with her five stepmothers

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Mary Tudor and her five stepmothers: what was their relationship like?

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An account of the story of James Allen, whose sex at birth was revealed only by an autopsy conducted after their death

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Actor Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster in James Whale's classic 1931 film

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: the birth of a gothic monster

The ruins of the once magnificent Roche Abbey

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The dissolution of the monasteries: mindless violence or planned precision?

Photo of an Anglo Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo

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Sutton Hoo: a brief guide to the Anglo-Saxon burial site and its discovery

A depiction of Robin Hood, the heroic archer in English folklore who supposedly robbed the rich and gave to the poor. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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The Sutton Hoo excavations are the focus of a new film, 'The Dig'. Carey Mulligan stars as Edith Pretty, and Ralph Fiennes portrays Basil Brown

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The Dig: the real history of the remarkable Sutton Hoo excavation

A scene from an early rugby union game

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The history of rugby: when was the sport invented?

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The inner courtyard of the old pottery factory at Gladstone Pottery Museum, with its five towering bottle ovens. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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Photo of Queen Victoria

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Queen Victoria: how and why did she become Empress of India?

Princess Feodora (left), half-sister of Queen Victoria (right)

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Princess Feodora: the little-known sister of Queen Victoria

English cavalry attacking the Sikh at the Battle of Aliwal

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A portrait of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with five of their nine children, by Frederick Winterhalter

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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: was their union a marriage of misery?

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Richard III

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