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An allegory of France in 1870

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Franco-Prussian War: the conflict that plunged Europe into a nightmare. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Neil Oliver

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Neil Oliver on searching the ancient past for timeless wisdom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anthonis Mor's portrait of Mary I from 1554

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Mary Tudor: brutal but brilliant

A portrait of Cnut holding a sceptre. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Cnut: the great Dane. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Buckingham Palace on VE Day in 1945

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7 facts about Buckingham Palace

A portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft: reclaiming the reputation of a feminist icon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From the British Isles to Italy and Spain: how the Normans reshaped Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Katherine Willoughby in an 18th-century engraving after a Hans Holbein the Younger portrait. In 1546 the prospect of her marrying England's ageing King Henry VIII was causing tongues to wag in diplomatic circles. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

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A seventh wife for Henry VIII? The story of Katherine Willoughby. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Robert Rinder (right) in My Family, The Holocaust and Me

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Growing up in the dark shadow of trauma: Robert Rinder on the legacy of Holocaust

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From the first Remembrance Day to remembrance today. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The White Ship disaster

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The White Ship disaster"The most disastrous moment in British maritime history". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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David Olusoga"Half a million cats and dogs were put to death in 1939 – for no good reason". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne Boleyn

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Anne Boleyn’s final battle: Tracy Borman reveals Henry VIII's final 'kindness'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A near-contemporary depiction of the 14th-century English monk, mathematician and astronomer Richard of Wallingford. Monks were among the leading scientific practitioners during the medieval period. (Photo by Bridgeman)

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The genius of medieval science: from medicine to mechanical clocks. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Thomas More: saint or sinner?

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Christian Frederick Cole: England’s first black barrister. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting by Louis Philippe Crepin depicting the battle of Trafalgar, 1805. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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The battle of Trafalgar, hour by hour: what happened and why did Britain win?

Staff hard at work at Bletchley Park. The people who worked here did so under conditions of utmost secrecy, and with little idea of how their work slotted into the grand scheme of things. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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Bletchley Park: Britain's wartime intelligence factory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife. Henry and Catherine's marriage was a happy one, until their failure to produce a male heir began to cast a long shadow. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Catherine of Aragon: Henry's greatest queen

Illustration shows James IV ceding his crown following defeat at the battle of Flodden. (Picture by Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

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Your guide to the battle of Flodden 1513

A section of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting Harold Godwinson being crowned king of England. Harold was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England and was killed by William, Duke of Normandy at the battle of Hastings in 1066. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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1066: eight days that rocked England

Edward the Confessor seated at a banquet

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Edward the Confessor: England’s holy hardman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

ever before,” says Margaret MacMillan. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

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"We’ve come to think that peace is normal, but that's not the reality": Margaret MacMillan on humanity's compulsion to go to war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How should history remember Margaret Thatcher?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle of Dover, 24 August 1217, (image c1880). (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Eustace the Monk: one of medieval Europe's unholiest holy men. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The ‘Black Terror’: the story of Britain's first black sports star

Portrait of Catherine of Aragon

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Catherine of Aragon: Spain’s Virgin queen?

Life in bondage Formerly enslaved African-Americans sit for a photograph in Virginia, c1850. At that time, 4 million people were still enslaved across the US, as debates around abolition raged on both sides of the Atlantic (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

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The black abolitionists who shocked Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of an African man, c1530 . (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The missing Tudors: black people in 16th-century England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of slaves picking cotton on a plantation. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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David Olusoga"Black history affects all of us – it is British history". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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