England

A historical image from the iron and steel industry in Teeside

Industrial revolution

175 years of iron and steel

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8 reasons to visit historic Chelsea

A Cardiff City player shakes hands with an Arsenal player before the kick off of the 1927 FA Cup final. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

England and Wales: best of enemies?

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Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

Aftermath of a smash-and-grab raid at a shop in London, c1929. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Ruby Sparks: the smash-and-grab gangster

This engraving by Charles Grignion (1717–1810) is taken from a lost bust of John Leland at All Souls College, Oxford. Leland's bibliography of British writers is a unique record of the country's medieval literature before it was decimated by Henry VIII's agents. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

John Leland: The man who saved medieval knowledge

Modern day Kibworth, Leicestershire. (Alamy)

England in miniature

An early Christian standing stone situated in an open field at Gelligaer Common near Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the villages that disappeared

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Visit historic Lichfield

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General prehistory

Creswell Crags

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Credit: f.259r The Siege of Chateau-Gaillard in 1204 when Philip Augustus of France (1165-1223) defeated King John (Lackland) of England (1199-1216), from the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1375-79 (vellum) by French School, (14th century)
Bibliotheque Municipale, Castres, France/ Giraudon/ The Bridgeman Art Library
Nationality / copyright status: French / out of copyright

The Library King John and the French invasion of England

British evacuees from Dunkirk walk off their rescue vessel land in Britain. (Photo by Corbis via Getty Images)

Second World War

Where history happened: Dunkirk

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Where the Bosworth battle really happened and a detailed look at rationing

The battle of Bosworth site. (Photo by Darren Walker/Dreamstime)

The Library Bosworth: did gunpowder win the day?

A helmet marks a trail over fields from the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, 2013. The site is close to the spot where the battle of Bosworth took place in 1485, and the place where King Richard III was killed. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Bosworth: the race to find the battlefield