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An overturned vehicle on tramlines as a blockage to traffic during the General Strike of 1926

A brief history of strike action

Tudors play real tennis, a precursor to the modern game of tennis

Q&A What was Real Tennis?

An angry crowd of around 400 miners blockade National Coal Board boss Ian McGregor inside a colliery office at Ellinton Colliery, 22 February 1984

Your guide to the miners’ strike of 1984–85

Closeup of Henry VIII's face

The slow death of Henry VIII

Princess Elizabeth and Thomas Seymour, who may have abused the young princess

Did Thomas Seymour sexually abuse the teenage Princess Elizabeth?

Elizabeth Gaskell – “Mrs Gaskell” – was instrumental in bringing the unpleasant implications of industrialisation to the public conscious. (Photo by Getty Images)

Elizabeth Gaskell: a voice of the Victorians

Alicia von Rittberg as Princess Elizabeth in Becoming Elizabeth

Becoming Elizabeth The real history behind the new Tudor drama

1842 self-portrait of Sarah Biffin

The armless artist who wowed Queen Victoria

Queen Elizabeth II, in March 2022 - the year of her platinum jubilee (Photo by Getty Images)

Quiz Queen Elizabeth II and her reign

Marriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête.

What great paintings say Marriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête by William Hogarth, c1743–45

The effigy of King John on his tomb in Worcester Cathedral

Your guide to King John, the monarch who issued Magna Carta

A lodger disputes his bill with his landlady in this 1812 print by Thomas Rowlandson

What was it like being a renter in Georgian London?

The Great Seal of the Commonwealth of England

The Interregnum: Britain’s republican decade

An illustration of Colonel Blood

What happened to Colonel Thomas Blood?

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