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‘Smugglers', c1785, from ‘Adventures by sea from art of old time’ by Basil Lubbock. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Smugglers and the birth of Britain’s consumer society.

Paper talk: a newspaper's take on the Restoration.

A portrait of Charles II wearing the robes of the Order of the Garter. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Charles II: the people’s prince.

The procession of Charles II between the Tower of London and Westminster on the eve of his coronation. Painting by the Dutch painter and etcher Dirk Stoop (c1610-c1685). (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Where history happened: The Restoration.

The Restoration plus Britain's relationship with chocolate.

BBC History Magazine

April’s Historic Trips... 10 Things To Do

Where the Bosworth battle really happened and a detailed look at rationing.

The battle of Bosworth site. (Photo by Darren Walker/Dreamstime)

The LibraryBosworth: did gunpowder win the day?.

Did Henry VIII love his last wife Katherine Parr?

A helmet marks a trail over fields from the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, 2013. The site is close to the spot where the battle of Bosworth took place in 1485, and the place where King Richard III was killed. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Bosworth: the race to find the battlefield.

Boar badge of Richard III discovered in Bosworth Field. (Photo by Creative Commons)

Bosworth battle site: have we discovered where Richard III died?.

Hadrian's Wall photographed at Hotbank Crags and looking towards Crag Lough in Northumberland National Park. (Photo by Roger Coulam/Getty Images)

The LibraryApocalypse then circa 410: the end of Roman Britain.

A ship in a storm

How did Britain come to rule the waves?

BBC History Magazine

Ten things to do in ... March

The English writer and radio broadcaster JB Priestley at home on the Isle of Wight, 1933. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

My history hero: JB Priestley (1894–1984).

Lady Jane Grey's execution, as imagined by painter Paul Delaroche in 1833. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Lady Jane Grey: why do we want to believe the myth?

Cromwell's words, Richard's crusades and the 1930s.

Elizabeth I: Fortune’s Bastard?

The Alfred Jewel: gold, rock, crystal and enamel

Objects of affection

A portrait of Oliver Cromwell

Putting words into Cromwell’s mouth.

Sunbathers enjoy some fun and games at a tennis court near a lido at Castle Mill, Cheshire, August 1936

The 1930s: When the future looked bright.

Arundel castle at dawn

Where history happened: Stephen and Matilda.

BBC History Magazine

A World by Itself

Some household cures would aim to rebalance the body's humours

Household medicine: sickness, salves and skillets.

Broadcaster Simon Mayo

My history hero: William Trevelyan Richards.

Historical objects - toilets and medicines.

When was the first mosque in Britain built?

BBC History Magazine

Ten things to do in… January

Image of the Lindisfarne Stone from Holy Island, Northumbria. It shows seven warriors, possibly vikings. The Vikings’ first recorded raid on Lindisfarne took place in AD 793. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Why did the Vikings' violent raids begin?

Banqueting House, London, where Charles I was executed on 30 January 1649. (Photo by Angelo Hornak/Corbis via Getty Images)

9 places associated with Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot.