Painting of a European marketplace

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Illustration of the raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne

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Chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934) in her laboratory. She shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre for their work in radioactivity. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Lucy Worsley in Regency period costume

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The White Ship disaster

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The aftermath of Kristallnacht, when businesses and properties owned by Jews were the target of vicious Nazi mobs

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Life in Nazi Germany: everything you wanted to know

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A portrait of Anne Boleyn. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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The Oseberg ship from around AD 820 is one of the most well- preserved Viking ships ever excavated (Photo by Noe Falk Nielsen/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Viking ships: 5 lesser-known facts

Solon, an Athenian statesman (left) laid the foundations for democracy

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Your guide to...the history of democracy

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An illustration of a group of supposed witches

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Professor Jan Bill on the HistoryExtra podcast.

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A 14th-century depiction of bakers at work. (Image by Getty Images)

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Social mobility in the Middle Ages: could medieval people improve their station?

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A near-contemporary depiction of the 14th-century English monk, mathematician and astronomer Richard of Wallingford. Monks were among the leading scientific practitioners during the medieval period. (Photo by Bridgeman)

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Image depicting Roman general Germanicus oversing the burial of the bones of Romans killed in the battle of Teutoburg Forest

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An empty knight's armor sitting on a chest.

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The Knights of the Round Table are that the heart of many Arthurian legends

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The Varangian Guard as depicted in the illuminated 12th-century manuscript known as the Madrid Skylitzes. These Viking warriors became the Byzantine emperors' personal bodyguard

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A portrait of Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife. Henry and Catherine's marriage was a happy one, until their failure to produce a male heir began to cast a long shadow. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Edward the Confessor seated at a banquet

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A painting of 1616 depicts the Moriscos boarding ships to sail from the port of Valencia

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Your guide to Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn

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