Painting of a European marketplace

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A runner is helped across a finish line

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21 key moments in the history of the modern Olympics

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Q&A: What was the punishment of being ‘burnt in the hand’?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Medal winners on a podium

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Q&AWho won the first Olympic medal? And what was the prize before that?

A man runs on an athletics track with a crowd behind him

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Harry Edward: Britain’s first black Olympic hero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Persian ambassador bows before Louis XIV in the Palace of Versailles

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King of the world: how Louis XIV turned France into a global power. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Belgium and the Netherlands compete in a tug of war at the Antwerp Olympic

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Olympic oddballs: 5 unusual Olympic sports from the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jesse Owens sprinting on a track at the Berlin Olympics.

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A history of unsporting conduct at the Olympics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few weeks after the disaster

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What was the Chernobyl Disaster?

The first modern Olympics at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens

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The first modern Olympics: what happened at the 1896 games?

French Revolution Quiz – test your knowledge with our history quiz

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QuizHow much do you know about the French Revolution?

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Are revolutions doomed to failure?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval romances were sometimes considered subversive material. This scene from the Roman de la Rose, written in the 13th century, depict two lovers. In later centuries, it was said romances “inflamed beastly and filthy desire”

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The Mills & Boon of the Middle Ages? Unpicking the mysteries of medieval romances. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle

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Q&AWho wrote the French national anthem?

Napoleon portrait by Jacques-Louis David shows is perhaps the most famous painting of the French emperor with one hand tucked out of sight

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Why do Napoleon’s portraits often show him with one hand inside his shirt? The story of the French emperor’s missing hand…

Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier’s painting portrays the Declaration of the Rights of Man

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How progressive was the French Revolution?

Robespierre is guillotined on 28 July 1794. Had he died two years earlier, his name would now be associated with liberty and equality, argues Marisa Linton. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Robespierre: man of terror

Kissing the Blarney Stone: a women hangs over the precipice with the aid of a friend as she attempts the feat at Blarney Castle in 1935

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What is the Blarney Stone, where did it come from and why do people kiss it?

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French Revolution podcast episodes

A late 18th-century painting depicting the execution of Marie Antoinette in 1793. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The smile revolution against the Reign of Terror. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of the head of Louis XVI

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Guillotined in the French Revolution: the bloody story through 7 severed heads

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waves to the crowd at Heston Airport and declaims "Peace in our Time" after returning from signing the Munich Agreement. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Did appeasement cause the Second World War?

Camille and Lucile Desmoulins

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How the architects of the 'Terror' after the French Revolution ended up among its victims. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Antony and Cleopatra meet for the first time

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What if...Antony and Cleopatra had won the battle of Actium?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The vanquishers of the Bastille before the Hôtel de Ville, 14 July 1789. Found in the Collection of Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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What triggered the French Revolution?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The decapitation machine now known as the guillotine was not a French invention and wasn't invented by Joseph Guillotin. (Image by Getty Images)

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Q&ADid the French invent the guillotine?

A bust of Marcus Aurelius and a detail on Marcus Aurelius’s column in Rome

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Marcus Aurelius: Rome’s reluctant killer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Second Battle of Copenhagen (or the Bombardment of Copenhagen) in 1807, the spire of the Church of Our Lady on fire, watercolour by Christofer Willem Eckersberg (1783-1853). Napoleonic Wars, Denmark, 19th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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Britain’s illegal war: the story of the battle of Copenhagen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

A contemporary illustration of the Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789 – an event that helped create the idea of 'revolution' as we know it today. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Fighting for freedom: the storming of the Bastille and the French Revolution

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