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Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Gold medallion of Constantius I, from the mint of Trier. It depicts Constantius celebrating his victory over Alectus in AD 296. Constantius is shown on a horse at the gates of London, welcomed by Britannia. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Miners on strike after the decision from the High Court of Justice to seize all assets of the labor unions, 1984. (Photo by Alain Nogues/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)

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David Reynolds, Professor of international history at Christ’s College, Cambridge. (Photo by Alamy)

Issue 200 special: “History books will need to be objects of desire”

Behind the scenes of Suzannah Lipscomb’s 'Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home'

Our Kind of Traitor: an interview with former MI6 intelligence officer Nicholas Anderson

Illustration by Arthur Rackham to the play ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ by William Shakespeare. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Kate Summerscale. (Photo by Fran Monks)

The wicked boy: the mystery of a Victorian child murderer

The Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London. (Photo by Dreamstime)

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Portrait of William Shakespeare by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

My history hero: William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

A 1954 advertisement for Cooper's Y-Front. (Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A revealing history of underwear

A portrait of Anne Boleyn

Did Eustace Chapuys really despise Anne Boleyn?

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Peaky Blinders: behind the scenes with creator Steven Knight

Suzannah Lipscomb & Dan Jones discuss Henry VIII's final two wives: Catherine Howard & Katherine Parr

The Brontë family.

The Brontës at war: how Charlotte and Branwell brought Waterloo into their drawing room

Edmund II - better known as Edmund Ironside - shown in a 14th-century manuscript. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons)

Edmund Ironside: Anglo-Saxon warrior king

A brief history of Offa’s Dyke

Shakespeare’s world and cricket in South Africa

Shakespeare’s London: playing a dangerous game

Swan Theatre, Bankside, London, interior from drawing by Johannes de Witt. The Shakespearian theatre, erected c1593 on Bankside – could hold 3,000 spectators – typical of the time. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

At the playhouse: watching Shakespeare's plays in Elizabethan England

Elizabeth I of England

Personal politics in Elizabeth I's court

Mary, Queen of Scots is executed © Getty

Horrible Histories author reveals 10 ways to die in Elizabethan England

Student life and working class culture

Monopoly maps: the history of MI9’s secret Second World War escape programme

Shakespeare: the historians’ view

A portrait of Catherine Howard. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Catherine Howard: The death of innocence

A portrait of Queen Elizabeth I painted by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

How Shakespeare rewrote history

Charles II entering London in May 1660 following the restoration of the monarchy. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

Clare Jackson"Charles II had to appeal to public opinion more than his predecessors did"

The ruins of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. Henry’s motives when dismantling such monasteries “were much more complex than pure revenge or pure avarice alone”, says Adam Morton. (Photo by Getty Images)

History explorer6 places to explore the dissolution of the monasteries

Charles II and an Atlantic experiment