Early comic panel illustration

England

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The decline and death of Henry VIII. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie in profile: facts about her life

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)

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A survivor's guide to Georgian marriage

A cartoon depicting the Duke of Wellington, who demands attention outside a house, while the Duke of Argyll, inside with Harriette Wilson, pretends not to recognise him.

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

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

An East India Company official riding on an elephant

Tudor

The East India Company: how a trading corporation became an imperial ruler

Alexander Ludwig as Bjorn Ironside, son Ragnar Lothbrok and king of Kattegat

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Vikings Season 6: plot recap, plus 8 historical questions answered

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Thomas Becket: from murder to martyrdom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rege-Jean Page as Simon Basset and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton

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Bridgerton season one: “A period drama like no other”

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

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Charles Dickens: prison reformer, scourge of capitalists, champion of the poor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Workers repair Fleet sewer in 1854. London’s creaking sewer network sparked anxieties over what lay beneath the sprawling capital. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Living in fear: the dangers of Victorian London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Christmas ghost stories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The effigy of Eleanor of Castile on her tomb

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Nelson's passion for Emma – with whom he had a six-year affair – is writ large in his letters

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History heroAndrew Marr chooses Charles Darwin (1809–82). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portchester Castle in Hampshire was intended as a coastal defence against raiders. (Photo by Getty Images)

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The collapse of Roman Britain: what happened, plus 9 places which tell us more. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace, plus 5 more Roman mosaics you can explore in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Wrens operating the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park, 1943

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Your guide to Bletchley Park, the key WW2 decryption centre

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Jane Austen's fiction: an accurate portrayal of life in Georgian England?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rushton Triangular Lodge was ostensibly a warrener's lodge but the biblical references that adorn its three exterior walls tell a different story. (Photo English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The orphan hero who fought at Trafalgar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This engraving by William Hogarth shows the final instalment of a sequence of artworks called 'The Four Stages of Cruelty' (1751). In it, the fictional Tom Nero is being dissected for anatomical studies at Cutlerian theatre near Newgate prison after being hanged for murder. Nero looks like the Dead-Alive, as though he can see and smell his own executed body on the dissection table. The chief physician sits in the centre on a high-backed chair, resembling a high court judge. He is surrounded by various medical men, including penal surgeons, who did gallows work. The skeletons of dissected criminals were usually refused a Christian burial and so were displayed as specimens, as can be seen top left and top right. (Photo by Guildhall Library/Getty Images)

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