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Emerald Fennell plays Camilla Parker Bowles (then Shand) in 'The Crown'

In profile: Queen Consort Camilla

Charles and Camilla, 1979

Charles and CamillaA history of their romance

Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark and the first Viking king of England (Photo by Getty)

How Sweyn Forkbeard became the first Viking king of England

A 19th-century lithograph showing a medieval criminal claiming sanctuary by placing his arm through the ring on a church door (Picture by Bridgman)

Sanctuary in medieval churches: how criminals found protection from capture and punishment

Ras Prince Monolulu entertains the crowds at Aintree racecourse, 1931 (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Ras Prince Monolulu: the horse-race tipster who transformed himself into an Abyssinian prince

London schoolboys on strike, Shoreditch, September 1911. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Schoolchildren on strike: when pupils demanded shorter hours

Painting of Bonnie Prince Charlie

Bonnie Prince Charlie: Scottish superhero or Italian coward?

Bloody Sunday: 50 years on

Episode 1Audio adventures in the 1920s

Illustration by Luke Waller

The Pentrich Rising: England's forgotten armed revolution

BBC employees at work in the control room at the new home at Broadcasting House (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

BBC at 100Broadcasting House: a new home for the BBC

Princess Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth II: the constant face of a changing Britain

Munich: the real history behind the new film

Portrait showing Mary, Queen of Scots with her hand on her hip

Mary, Queen of Scots: your guide to her life and times

Women of the Rothschild dynasty

Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton, next to a Regency portrait of Kitty Kirkpatrick.

Inspiring Bridgerton: the real South Asian women in Regency-era England

Queen Victoria in 1861

Queen of spies? Inside Queen Victoria’s secret intelligence network

The capture of the pirate Blackbeard, 1718. Painting by JLG Ferris. One of history’s most notorious pirates, Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach almost certainly had a West Country twang because he was born in Bristol in around 1680. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Q&ADid most English pirates really talk with a West Country accent?

How the Beatles were in tune with 60s Britain

Alfred the Great “managed to ensure history’s enduring affection by making sure that he wrote it himself,” argues Max Adams. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Alfred the Great: "He was an excellent king, but that's not the whole story"

British army soldiers face off against a group of Irish civilians

Why we should remember…Bloody Sunday

Plan of the island of Utopia, from Thomas More's work of the same name depicting an ideal state

Thomas More's Utopia – what lessons did it have for Tudor England?

King George II of Great Britain

George II: 8 facts about the British king and German elector

Vienna Plague Hospital, 1679. (Getty Images)

What were women's lives like during the 17th-century plague?

Admiral Lord Nelson: 10 days that created a legend

School photo showing rows of children from a Manchester school

Did Britain really roar in the 1920s?

A depiction of the French and Indian War, with George Washington on horseback

A guide to the Seven Years’ War

Women who served in WW2

A group of BBC staff surround a large piece of broadcasting equipment

BBC at 100The BBC begins: how a group of radio pioneers launched one of Britain's most famous institutions

Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in mounted combat

Richard the Lionheart: king of war