People watching the Royal Wedding

United Kingdom

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An Atlas of the Peninsular War

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A World on Fire

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The Real Jim Hawkins: Ships’ Boys in the Georgian Navy

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Protection for historical buildings

Arbroath Abbey

Finger painting.

George III at the end of his reign. He "represented the uncontrollable aspects of humanity that the Enlightenment could not explain," says Stella Tillyard. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Uncertainty and unrest: the madness of the Regency period.

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

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Austerity measures will open the door to the black market

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The Dangerous Trade

Ruby Sparks: the smash-and-grab gangster.

Communist sport: Cold War copycats.

Robert Burns: the people’s poet.

My history hero: Christopher Clayton Hutton (1893–1965).

John Leland: The man who saved medieval knowledge.

Toilers of the deep: the lives of Edwardian deep sea fishermen

The Abingdon Sword, an iron sword fragment and hilt found near Abingdon in Oxfordshire in 1874. The decoration on the sword hilt indicates this was a high status weapon dating from around AD 875. (Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Fighting the Vikings.

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The Admiral Benbow: The Life and Times of a Naval Legend

Stonehenge, aerial view

General prehistory

Book review: A History of Ancient Britain

A pregnant woman receives a piece of beef

"A taste for husbands' buttocks": the bizarre history of pregnancy cravings.

Q&A: Were conscientious objectors in the Second World War given white feathers?.

Big cats

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Royal Tars of Old England

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The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land

The Beatles - John Lennon. (ITV pictures)

John Lennon: Three films

A bus makes its way down Fleet Street towards Ludgate Hill Circus and St Paul's Cathedral, London, c1888. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A history of the high street

A secret war against the Tudors.

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Race for the South Pole: the Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen

What did the Baby Boomers Ever do for Us?

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Bloodied Banners: Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield