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Royal at arms: In a 14th-century manuscript, Henry III (left) is shown fighting his nobles during the Second Baron's War (1264–67). This was both a revolutionary war and, from the perceptive of Henry's foes, a religious conflict. (Image by Bridgeman)

The Library The barons’ crusade: why rebel lords waged holy war against Henry III

The Lord's pavilion

The Library Lord’s cricket ground: the mecca of cricket

The ruins of Dunluce Castle, which sit on the coastal cliffs of North Antrim in Northern Ireland. They are thought to have been the inspiration for CS Lewis’s castle Cair Paravel in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ (1950–56). (Photo by Andrea Ricordi/Contributor/Getty Images)

9 of Britain’s best castles

The origins of the Conservative Party can be traced to the ‘Tory’ group in parliament which emerged in the last quarter of the 17th century and, led by Lord Bolingbroke (pictured) and Robert Harley, held power during the final years of Queen Anne’s reign. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

A brief history of the Conservative Party

Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and her fiance, Philip Mountbatten at Buckingham Palace, after their engagement was announced, 10th July 1947. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Prince Philip: a life of duty and devotion

The Spanish Princess, starring Charlotte Hope as Catherine of Aragon, charts the story of the woman who married into the Tudor dynasty. (Image credit: Starz)

The real history behind The Spanish Princess

Anne Boleyn, who was executed by beheading on 19 May 1536 after being found guilty of high treason, was said to have had "much joy and pleasure in death". (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The final days of Anne Boleyn

A Tudor rose on a wooden ceiling beam.

Monarchy and faith in Tudor England

Portrait of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, who was born in around 1501 in Norfolk and executed by decapitation at Tower Green on 19 May 1536. (Photo by The Print Collector/Alamy Stock Photo)

11 things you (probably) didn’t know about Anne Boleyn

Nancy Astor. (Photo by Getty Images)

Rachel Reeves on women who changed politics

A portrait of Samuel Pepys, English writer and diarist. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Samuel Pepys

Peasants in the Middle Ages at a cattle market. Cows appear to have been difficult to manage in the medieval period, and caused several deaths. (Photo by INTERFOTO /Alamy)

5 strange causes of death in the medieval period

Queen Victoria attends to matters of state. Illustration from 'The Life and Times of Queen Victoria' by Robert Wilson, (1900). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

What was it like meeting Queen Victoria? 6 royal encounters as told by famous Victorians

Most widely seen photographs of Queen Victoria, pictured here in c1870, depict a short, stony-faced and humourless matriarch dressed in black, but this does the queen a disservice, says Helen Rappaport. (Photo by The Royal Photographic Society Collection/Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Getty Images)

‘Dumpy’ dowager or vibrant beauty: what did Queen Victoria really look like?