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Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, c1870. He was the youngest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany: the sickly fourth son of Victoria and Albert

Battle of Culloden. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Your guide to the battle of Culloden – plus 7 myths busted

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Unravelling the Bayeux TapestryEpisode 3: What story does the Tapestry tell?

Newark Castle flanked by the river Trent. To say that King John's death here in 1216 was little-lamented is something of an understatement. "With John's foul deeds all England is stinking, as does hell, to which he is now sinking," wrote the chronicler Matthew Paris. (Getty Images)

King John and the French invasion

Ammonite and the real fossil hunter Mary Anning

Excerpt from the Textus Roffensis showing Christ and a dragon

The Textus Roffensis: a medieval manuscript to rival Magna Carta

A union flag flown on HMS Queen Charlotte at the battle known as the Glorious First of June, 1794

Q&AWhen was the Union Jack or Union flag created?

Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and known as the Kingmaker, meets his end at the battle of Barnet in 1471

Q&AWhy was Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, known as the Kingmaker?

Battle of Barnet: This lively, if inaccurate, 15th- century illustration of the shows a coronet- wearing Edward skewering Warwick with his lance

The battle of Barnet, 1471: the Wars of the Roses clash that killed the Kingmaker

Virginia Woolf, writer and critic. (Image by Getty Images)

Virginia Woolf: a brief guide to the writer's life

Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan) in Francis Lee's new film 'Ammonite'. (Photo courtesy of Lionsgate UK / See-Saw Films)

The real history behind Ammonite

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Unravelling the Bayeux TapestryEpisode 2: How was the Tapestry created?

Hate mail & mutilated horses: Conan Doyle investigates

The Elizabethans: everything you wanted to know

Long read |The man at Sutton Hoo

George Edalji and the Great Wyrley killings: a real-life Sherlock Holmes mystery

The Battle Of Towton, fought on 29 March 1461, was brutal clash in the driving snow fought during the Wars of the Roses

The battle of Towton: did the biggest, bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil take place during the Wars of the Roses?

Second century relief portraying a Roman ophthalmologist examining a patient. (Photo By DEA / A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images)

Roman medicine: 6 ways people stayed healthy in ancient Rome

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Unravelling the Bayeux TapestryEpisode 1: When, Where & Why

The Clifford’s Tower massacre & medieval anti-Semitism

Police lead away a suffragettes, arrested for chaining herself to the railings of Buckingham Palace

Female activism: 10 remarkable protests from around the world

Learning the hard way: soldiers struggle to move a field gun through the Flanders mud. The key to victory in the west was the Allies’ ability to effect one of the “most consequential technologies and tactical transformations in the history of war,” says Nick Lloyd. (Photo by Getty Images)

Revolution on the western front

Richard III: your guide to the last Yorkist king of England

Julius Caesar. (Photo by Getty Images)

Caesar's British gamble

Edgar the Aetheling is notably missing from the Bayeux Tapestry

The lost figure of the Bayeux Tapestry: where is Edgar Ætheling?

Professor Stephen Hawking in his office at the University of Cambridge, 2003

History heroBobby Seagull chooses Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)

The Cold War: everything you wanted to know

The 1815–46 Corn Laws: your guide to the crisis and why they were repealed

Nell Gwyn was a mistress of King Charles II

Nell GywnThe orange girl who became a king's mistress in Restoration England

Why treason was so unforgivable in the Middle Ages