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Actor Errol Flynn as Robin Hood in the film 'The Adventures of Robin Hood', 1938. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

Medieval

What's the most accurate Robin Hood film?

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Henry V’s greatest victory (and it wasn't at the battle of Agincourt). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Eric Liddell winning the 400-metre final at the 1924 Olympic Games

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History heroDan Walker chooses Eric Liddell (1902–45). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The battle of Sandwich: England’s medieval Trafalgar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of William III of Orange, found in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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How glorious was the Glorious Revolution?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Jane Seymour, queen of England from 1536 to 1537 as the third wife of Henry VIII. Jane is remembered for being the only wife to provide Henry with a son and male heir (the future Edward VI). Jane died on 24 October 1537, most likely from puerperal, or childbed, fever. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

Tudor

Jane Seymour: the queen Henry VIII loved most?

Tulsa race massacre: A man surveys the wreckage of homes in the Oklahoma city of Tulsa, June 1921. Two days of racist violence and destruction left what had been one of the United States’ wealthiest black communities in ruins

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The 1921 Tulsa race massacre: the worst single incident of racial violence in US history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The crew of SMS King in its home port following the battle of the Skagerrak, June 1916. (Photo by A Renard/ullstein image via Getty Images)

First World War

Jutland: the battle that won the First World War

Bodiam Castle. (Getty Images)

Medieval

How to build a medieval castle: 9 top tips

Alan Turing

Second World War

Your guide to Alan Turing: the man, the enigma

A 19th-century engraving depicts a member of the crew of the 'Mignonette'

Victorian

Cannibalism at sea: the starving Victorian sailors who ate a cabin boy

Entrance to Lincoln Castle. (Dreamstime)

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Lincoln: the battle that gave birth to medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Italian prisoners of war being escorted under armed guard to work on a farm, September 1941. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Second World War

Prisoners of war in Britain during WW2: where were they held?

Portrait of Sarah Gristwood for BBC History Magazine

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History explorer: Tewkesbury Abbey and four more places linked to the Wars of the Roses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Carlo Broschi (stage name Farinelli), the most famous opera singer of the 18th century. (Photo By DEA/A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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Castrated Georgian opera stars: the stars of the 18th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Welfare campaigner Emily Hobhouse

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History heroAnita Anand chooses Emily Hobhouse (1860–1926). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Georgian

Napoleon's planned invasion of England: what went wrong?

British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

20th Century

Clement Attlee: Labour's postwar leader

An early Christian standing stone situated in an open field at Gelligaer Common near Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. (Getty Images)

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Where history happened: the villages that disappeared. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Napoleon

Georgian

Napoleon: a life in 10 objects

A statue of the Roman emperor Augustus in Augsburg, Germany. (Image by Alamy)

Roman

The fall of Roman Britain: how life changed for Britons after the empire

Happier days: The tsar and his family pose for a portrait in c1910, years before he was swept from power and murdered. Maria, Olga and Tatiana (left to right) are at the back. Alexandra and Nicholas are seated with Alexey at their feet. Anastasia is far right. (Photo by Getty Images)

20th Century

The last days of the Romanovs: could George V have saved the family?

Zdeněk Burian’s painting from 1952 offers a sympathetic portrayal of Neanderthals practising cannibalism. Self-assurance, even contentment, emanate from “It appears as a calm response to death, rather than murderous carnage,” writes Rebecca Wragg Sykes. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

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Neanderthal in the mirror: our changing perceptions of these ancient humans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stanley Baldwin in the study at Chequers, the PM's official country residence, c1925

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Stanley Baldwin: Britain’s greatest peacetime prime minister?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

At dinner, St Marylebone Workhouse, London, c1901 (1903)

Victorian

The rise and fall of the workhouse

Opulent headquarters East India House in London, 1850. From inside this grand building, the East India Company directors oversaw the governance of India and its associated territories (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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1838: A year in the life of the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How Machiavellian was Machiavelli?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Bloodied feet, outrageous breasts and the sinister power of a hair cut: a history of the body. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Muslim-Crusader interactions: a clash of civilisations?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Four knights hack Thomas Becket to death

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Europe's greatest martyr: how Thomas Becket rose from the dead. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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