Early comic panel illustration

England

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Picture of Chrysippus of Soli

20th Century

Q&AHas anyone ever died of laughter?

Victorian

Q&AWhy do we say 'saved by the bell'?

Photo of cherry bakewells

Georgian

Q&AIs the Bakewell tart really from Bakewell?

Trees and snow. Photo taken by British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews as part of her series focussing on the locations at which individuals were shot during the First World War.

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King Alfred The Great's statue designed by Hamo Thornycroft and erected in 1899 stands at the eastern end of the Broadway in Winchester, Hampshire, England. (Photo by Tony Baggett/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Anglo-Saxon

Q&AHow many English kings were known as ‘the Great’?

The Stygian Lake in the Fifth Circle of Hell from from Dante’s epic poem 'The Inferno'. The phrase "Paint the town red" may originate from the sentence in the poem "we are they who painted the world scarlet with sins". (Photo by Getty Images)

Medieval

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Paint the town red’?

Portrait of Henry VIII

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The princes in the Tower

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Tudor

Tracy Borman's Tudor quiz

Portrait of Miranda Kaufmann. (Image by Jeni Nott)

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The Palace of Westminster

Tudor

Q&AWhy do we call the British government ‘Whitehall’?

British film director Alfred Hitchcock perched on either arm in a promotional still for his film, 'The Birds', c1963. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Photo of Mount Grace Priory

Medieval

Q&Ahttps://www.historyextra.com/period/what-was-a-charterhouse/

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Q&AAre there any rulers of England that don’t appear on the usual lists?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Clifford Tower in York

Tudor

Q&AWhat was the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Photo of Lincoln Cathedral

Medieval

Q&AWhat overtook the Great Pyramid of Giza as the tallest manmade structure?

A depiction of the battle of Naseby

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Georgian

18th-century snapshots of Windsor Castle

Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

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Medieval

The princes in the Tower: why was their fate never explained?

Merchants and lower-ranking gentlemen often put pen to paper themselves, but wealthy men and gentlewomen were more likely to employ a scribe. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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How to send a letter in medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The LibraryThe downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots and a British civil rights struggle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian

Jackfield Tile Museum, Telford

General Modern

The National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire

Medieval

Smithills Hall, Bolton

A Victorian front cover of Lindisfarne Gospels.

Early medievalgalleryThe Lindisfarne Gospels

Stuart

Erddig, Wrexham

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