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Two garden gnomes on grass

Victorian

A brief history of garden gnomes

Victorian

5 facts about the history of football

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What are the challenges of telling LGBTQ history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Babies from a nursery are walked in a pram, c1953

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A nation in numbers: 100 years of British life in 7 statistics. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A broker looks at his screens at Frankfurt's stock exchange on 15 September 2008. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/AFP/Getty Images)

General Modern

The 2008 financial crisis explained

Young woman gets hair cut in to a bob

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A brief history of changing hairstyles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Former US president Theodore Roosevelt stands on a boat with Cândido Rondon

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History heroElla Al-Shamahi chooses Cândido Rondon (1865–1958). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Troops pictured during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War

First World War

Gallipoli: 5 reasons why the First World War campaign was a failure

King John hunting on horseback, 14th century. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Was King John murdered?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Salt cellar with Neptune and Tellus by Benvenuto Cellini

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Benvenuto CelliniHow the 'bad boy' sculptor gives us a fresh perspective on the Renaissance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A flapper shows off her hidden bottles of alcohol

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The morning after: the impact of prohibition. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The relationship between Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) and her brother George (Jim Strugess) is explored in 2009 film 'The Other Boleyn Girl'

Tudor

George and Anne Boleyn: their real relationship explored

Robert Walpole, the first prime minister of Great Britain

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Robert Walpole: Britain's first prime minister. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German troops and a Georgian ‘volunteer’ in action in 1942 or 43.

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Texel: Europe's last battle of the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Our illustration shows Thomas Boleyn, whose flair for diplomacy and mastery of languages made him one of Henry VIII's most trusted ambassadors. (Illustration by Sean McSorley)

Tudor

Thomas Boleyn: why Anne Boleyn's father was more than a grasping courtier

A section of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the battle of Hastings. Anglo-Saxon foot soldiers are seen defending themselves with a wall of shields against Norman cavalry. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

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What the Normans did for us. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Triumphant Death chases Londoners from their city

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How 17th-century London reacted to the Great Plague. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Georgian

Your guide to the battle of Culloden – plus 7 myths busted

Newark Castle flanked by the river Trent. To say that King John's death here in 1216 was little-lamented is something of an understatement. "With John's foul deeds all England is stinking, as does hell, to which he is now sinking," wrote the chronicler Matthew Paris. (Getty Images)

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King John and the French invasion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Da Vinci's sketch 'The Vitruvian Man'. Da Vinci's talents ranged from anatomy to military engineering, and many of his innovations were not explored further for several centuries. (Photo by: Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

Medieval

Your guide to Leonardo da Vinci: his life, inventions and milestones in his career

A union flag flown on HMS Queen Charlotte at the battle known as the Glorious First of June, 1794

Stuart

Q&AWhen was the Union Jack or Union flag created?

Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and known as the Kingmaker, meets his end at the battle of Barnet in 1471

Medieval

Q&AWhy was Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, known as the Kingmaker?

Battle of Barnet: This lively, if inaccurate, 15th- century illustration of the shows a coronet- wearing Edward skewering Warwick with his lance

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The battle of Barnet, 1471: the Wars of the Roses clash that killed the Kingmaker. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jayaben Desai salutes fellow pickets at the Grunwick film processing factory in 1977

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The Grunwick protests: remembering the 1970s strike for migrant workers' rights. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Virginia Woolf, writer and critic. (Image by Getty Images)

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Virginia Woolf: a brief guide to the writer's life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Viking women gathered outside a home - illustration

Viking

What was life like for Viking women?

Science is helping to reveal new information about life in the Viking Age

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Vikings under the microscope: what can science tell us about Viking life?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Learning the hard way: soldiers struggle to move a field gun through the Flanders mud. The key to victory in the west was the Allies’ ability to effect one of the “most consequential technologies and tactical transformations in the history of war,” says Nick Lloyd. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Revolution on the western front. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Julius Caesar. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Caesar's British gamble. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alexander the Great on his horse, Bucephalus

Ancient Greece

Bucephalus: why is Alexander the Great's horse famous?

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