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A c1610 portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, a "charming and ill-fated woman brought down by forces beyond her control". (DeAgostini/Getty Images)

The Library The downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots

A scene from an early rugby union game

The history of rugby

Lithograph portrait of Scottish poet Robert Burns. (Photo by Stock Montage/Getty Images)

7 facts about Robert Burns, Scotland’s national bard

A memorial tomb to King Æthelstan, the first Saxon king of all England, in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire. (Photo by Geography Photos/UIG via Getty Images)

A brief history of England

Mass meeting of Chartists on Kennington Common, London, 10 April 1848

9 places connected to the Chartism movement

Olivette Otele and Sadiah Quresh.

Diversity in history

Anne, queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702. (Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

Who was Queen Anne? Facts about her life, rule, marriage and children

Foundations of a bath house at the Roman fort on Bar Hill in central Scotland. (Photo by Alamy)

History explorer Roman Britain’s final frontier

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Battle of Culloden. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

General prehistory

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Scottish history

Chris Pine as Robert the Bruce in 'Outlaw King'. (Photo by Netfix / David Eustace)

Robert the Bruce: what do we know?

A depiction of a witch on a broomstick. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

History quiz – Halloween

A statue of Robert the Bruce at Stirling Castle in Scotland. The castle "is in many ways like a bottleneck – so much of Scottish and British history passes through it and goes off to its eventual destination,” says Neil Oliver. (Photo by Iain Masterton via Getty Images)

BBC presenter Neil Oliver on his top 5 must-visit places in Britain

The entrance to Bodiam Castle. "If any castle conjures up the ‘romance’ of the mediaeval world, this is it," says Michael Smith. (Photo by Andrew Ray/LOOP IMAGES via Getty Images)

From magnificent ruins to imposing forts: 10 must-visit British castles

A battle of Flodden memorial statue of one of the Hawick Callants on horseback, raising the captured banner aloft in triumph. Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. (Getty Images)

History explorer: the battle of Flodden