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A giant leap for mankind: William Harvey reveals the circulation of the blood

The Chateau d'Hougoutmont, Belgium, was the scene of one of the most important battles in British and European history – the battle of Waterloo. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Bravery at Waterloo: the button seller and the drummer boy

An illustration from an 11th-century manuscript depicting a king and his minister doing justice, c1050. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Medieval English law in the time of Magna Carta

The Franciscans treating victims of the plague, miniature from La Franceschina, c1474, codex by Jacopo Oddi. Perugia, Biblioteca Capitolare (Library). (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

The hospital experience in medieval England

Aerial view on Westminster Abbey at night. (Photo by Pawel Libera/LightRocket via Getty Images)

7 of England’s best medieval buildings

The Easter Rising and a Victorian heyday

Joan of Kent. (Image by Getty)

Joan of Kent: a perfect princess?

The Grand Bridge at Blenheim. (Getty Images)

History explorerBlenheim Palace and Capability Brown

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The Tudor sex guide

Elizabeth I’s Armada portrait. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images

The Tudors’ unlikely allies

An illustration of Edmund Spenser’s poetic work ‘The Shepheardes Calender’. (Photo by Culture Club/Contributor/Getty Images)

The dark side of Elizabethan England

An illustration from Dickinson's ‘Comprehensive Pictures of The Great Exhibition’. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Heyday: the 1850s and the dawn of the global age

Muslims and Jews in the 16th century

The Holy Roman Empire and Capability Brown

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh wave from the famous balcony at Buckingham Palace after the Queen's coronation on 2 June 1953. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

7 memorable moments in the history of Buckingham Palace

A brave new world: the 1980s home computer boom

Benjamin Franklin in London

An illustration of HMS Intrepid, under the command of Irish explorer Captain Francis Leopold McClintock, trapped in pack ice in Baffin Bay, c1853. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

OpinionWhy the British love a plucky loser

An illustration of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Not such a prude after all: the secrets of Henry VIII’s love life

The Beatles perform onstage at the Cavern Club, Liverpool in February 1961. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

History explorer: the swinging sixties

A coffin containing the skeleton of King Richard III sitting in repose inside Leicester Cathedral. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

Are we blinded by our love of history?

Photo of a statue of Boudicca

Q&AIs Boudica buried at Platform 9¾?

5 hidden killers of the Victorian home

Postwar Germany and medieval CSI

Chess, gambling and cards: Tudor games and indoor pastimes

The history of middle-class wine drinking

Portrait of Henry V of England

My history hero: Henry V

KRISTOFER HIVJU GAME OF THRONES

Game of Thrones: medieval inspiration

Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists

The LibraryBritain’s tearoom fascists

Christmas celebrations: the old versus the new