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A portrait of William Shakespeare

General History

History quiz – language and literature

Alicia von Rittberg as Princess Elizabeth in Becoming Elizabeth

Becoming Elizabeth The real history behind the new Tudor drama

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July 2022 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

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Episode 6 Cultures lost and found . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oscar Wilde pictured around 1882.

Oscar Wilde’s tragic end

Robert Louis Stevenson, the 19th-century English poet and novelist perhaps best known for his books 'Treasure Island' and the 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson: novelist, playwright, poet, traveller

1842 self-portrait of Sarah Biffin

The armless artist who wowed Queen Victoria

Women inmates hanging out washing at a British workhouse, circa 1880.

Victorian daily life: what was it like for ‘ordinary’ Victorians?

British Army tanks are unloaded on to Gold Beach on D-Day

Second World War

D-Day quiz Test your knowledge of the Normandy Landings

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The Queen’s century of change . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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British schools and education: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II in 2006 film 'The Queen'

Screen Queen Elizabeth II on film

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

Quiz Queen Elizabeth II and her reign

Elizabeth is borne from Westminster Abbey in a gold coach first used for the state opening of parliament by George III in 1762. (Getty Images)

Becoming Queen: Elizabeth II’s coronation