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Painting depicting medieval nuns. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

17th-century nuns on the run.

Philip of Spain, King of England: The Forgotten Sovereign

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Able Seamen: The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy 1850–1939

St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh

Mikado Maids

A big day in history: Gilbert and Sullivan unveil 'The Mikado'.

Britain’s medieval identity crisis.

'Tirpitz' hiding in a Norwegian fjord in 1942. “She outclassed anything in the British fleet,” says Patrick Bishop. (Getty Images)

The Second World War: sinking the Tirpitz.

A painting depicting the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo. "Wellington’s victories at Roliça and Vimeiro in 1808 were the first significant defeats inflicted upon the French emperor’s armies in Europe," says Saul David. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The triumph of the redcoats.

Hard labour: a woman tarring and flinting in Oxford Street, central London, 1919. (Getty Images)

The Library“Our Excess Girls": women after the First World War.

Ernest Bevin

My history hero: Ernest Bevin (1881-1951).

Dundrennan Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

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Vicious murder

The Minack Theatre, Cornwall

A photograph of Queen Victoria and her descendants, taken in April 1894 in Coburg, Germany. The photograph shows Queen Victoria's position at the centre of a network of alliances created by strategic marriages, which gave her the name 'the grandmother of Europe'. (Alamy)

A photograph of Queen Victoria and her family: what can it tell us?.

Dickens on the move.

Line engraving depicting the burning of Rawlins White, c1555. From a late 18th-century edition of John Foxe's 'The Book of Martyrs'. (Alamy)

The Making of Martyrs.

English medical student Roger Bannister

A history of British sport.

Glenluce Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

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The BBC Story

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Masters of the Post: The Authorized History of the Royal Mail

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Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt

Why were people who died by suicide historically buried at crossroads?

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The BBC Story

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Dave Musgrove talk at Kenwood House

Ironbridge

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Murder most horrid

King George VI and stories from Africa.

Chair used for the last execution at the Tower of London, c1940. Wooden chair on which the German Corporal Josef Jakobs was seated when he was shot as a spy in the Tower of London in August 1941. Two of the spindles have been shot away and the frame broken by bullets. Jakobs, who was seated due to an injured leg, was the last person to be executed at the Tower of London. (Credit: The Board of Trustees of the Armouries / HIP / TopFoto)

Q&A: Why was Josef Jakobs the only WW2 spy to be shot rather than hanged?.

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Identifying the English: A History of Personal Identification 1500–2010

Whithorn Priory, Dumfries and Galloway