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King Richard III Tomb

Richard III: a ‘car park king’ timeline

Queen Victoria. (Getty Images)

Queen Victoria timeline: 9 milestones in the monarch’s life

Actor William Gillette playing the detective Sherlock Holmes. (Photo by Gillette/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

11 things you (probably) didn’t know about Sherlock Holmes

The battle of Towton during the War of the Roses, 1461. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

12 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Wars of the Roses

N Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own, and a grotesque female patient's false teeth, to a prospective male patient with grossly disfigured teeth. (Wellcome Collection)

A bite-sized history of dentistry

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London & North Western Railway locomotive, 1848. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

8 ways railway travel changed everything for Britain

Charles Lindbergh, photographed alongside the ‘Spirit of St. Louis’.

A pioneering flight: Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic crossing

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Sam’s historical recipe corner: Coronation chicken

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June 2018 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

A Georgian painting depicting children leaving for school

The Georgian guide to perfect parenting

A 14th-century Flemish illustration depicting the burying of plague victims in coffins in Tournai in 1349. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Black Death: “Oh father, why have you abandoned me?”

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The beach at Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast of Devon and Dorset, has attracted fossil hunters for centuries. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: Georgian fossil hunting

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Medieval buildings lining the Dijver canal in the centre of the Belgian city of Bruges. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Bruges, Belgium

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