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The Spanish Armada defeated in the English Channel in July 1588, by Hendrick Cornelis Vroom, c1600. (Picture by DEA PICTURE LIBRARY/Getty Images)
Elizabethan

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Spanish Armada

A portrait of Isabella I of Castile. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)
Medieval

Isabella of Castile: Europe’s greatest queen?

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The march for Catalan Independence held in Barcelona, 11 September 2014 (Photo by Jordi Elias Grassot/Alamy)
General Modern

Scots and Catalans

Tudor

History Extra’s top 10 podcast episodes

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20th Century

The World Cup story

Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), 1797. Artist: Abbott, Lemuel Francis (1760-1802)
Georgian

My history hero: Horatio Nelson (1758–1805)

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The Spanish town of Guernica after the bombing by German and Italian aircraft, 1937. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
Second World War

Guernica

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The Giralda tower and cathedral seen across the Plaza de la Alianza, Seville, Spain. (Getty Images)
Medieval

My favourite place: Seville, Spain

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Henry VIII. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Tudor

History quiz – holidays and Henry VIII

Parson's Lodge Battery in Rosia Bay, Gibraltar. (Getty Images)
Georgian

My favourite place: Gibraltar

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Barcelona. (Getty Images)
20th Century

My favourite place: Barcelona

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Adolf Hitler (left) and his interpreter (centre) talking to Spanish leader Francisco Franco. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/US Army Signal Corps/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
Second World War

Hitler’s fury, Franco’s guile and the bribe that saved the world

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Seve Ballesteros. (Photo by Brian Morgan/Getty Images)
20th Century

My history hero: Seve Ballesteros (1957–2011)

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A painting showing the defeat of the Spanish Armada
Elizabethan

The Spanish Armada: all at sea

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