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Victory at Poitiers: The Black Prince and the Medieval Art of War

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God’s Philosophers

American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) who wrote under the pseudonym of Mark Twain, standing outside on a porch. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Mark Twain: America’s historical conscience?.

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For all their flaws, I admire Britain’s empire builders

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A History of Diplomacy

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The Man on Devil’s Island

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Politicians have been scared of discussing immigration for years

The Atlantic and Its Enemies

Bataan Death March

Q&A: Did Japan ever sign the Geneva Convention after the Second World War?.

King John and the French invasion of England

A 'poster parade' of Ealing suffragettes advertising a meeting to be held on Ealing Common, 1 June 1912. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

9 historical sites linked to the suffragettes movement.

The LibraryMedieval outlaws: the real Robin Hoods.

Dandy Gandhi to naked Fakir: the Indian leader's revolutionary dress code.

My history hero: Philip Pembroke Stephens (1903–37).

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Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction

Where history happened: Dunkirk.

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The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta

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A Swindler’s Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty

The LibraryThe fall of France: Hitler’s greatest gamble.

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Empire of Liberty

Guernsey’s child evacuees.

Charles Théveneau de Morande: an 18th-century French spy in London.

A portrait of Charles II wearing the robes of the Order of the Garter. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Charles II: the people’s prince.

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Making Haste from Babylon

Did Henry VIII love his last wife Katherine Parr?

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Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750–1850

A ship in a storm

How did Britain come to rule the waves?

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The World That Never Was

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Peaceful war: was the 19th century a time of relative peace?

Lewis Chessmen found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, probably made in Norway, about AD 1150-1200. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

The LibraryObjects with meanings: How artefacts can give us a new take on global history.