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Floral tributes to Diana, Princess of Wales, outside Kensington Palace. (Photo by Liba Taylor/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Princess Diana's death: when grief gripped a nation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Painting of Masons building a pillar in a church

General Early Modern

Your guide to...the Freemasons

The Pilgrim fathers arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts on board the Mayflower. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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"They decided that God must be leading them to North America": the Puritans journey to the Mayflower. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The tomb of Pharaoh Djoser, built at Saqqara

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Timeline: the evolution of ancient empires. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

As seen in this early 19th-century depiction of an initiation, Masons have long used secrecy to "create a sense of awe and specialness around their rituals". (Image by Alamy)

Georgian

A history of Freemasonry: from Enlightenment ideals to satanic conspiracy stories

Richard III. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Have we completely misinterpreted Shakespeare’s Richard III?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A watercolour version of a mural showing Henry VIII (front left) with his father, Henry VII, his wife Jane Seymour (front right) and his mother, Elizabeth of York. The mural, which aimed to validate Henry's right to the throne, adorned Whitehall Palace before being destroyed by fire. (Photo by Bridgeman Royal Collection)

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Henry VIII: confident young king or insecure son?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mosaic showing gladiators, Roman Civilization, 4th century

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Bread and circuses: what happened in the amphitheatres of the Roman empire?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Marble relief depicting the Praetorian Guard, legionnaires and elite soldiers. In the Louvre, Paris, France. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

Roman

The Praetorian Guard: the emperors’ fatal servants

Night view of people jammed into Times Square, New York, celebrating the end of the war in Europe. (Photo by Herbert Gehr/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty

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Was 1945 the world's zero?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, surrendering to the 'barbarian' Odoacer

Roman

Your guide to...the fall of Rome

The Parnethon, Athens

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How to build a democracy (Athenian-style). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The real Harlots: Hallie Rubenhold on Covent Garden's courtesans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Attila the Hun

General ancient history

Who was Attila the Hun, the barbarian ruler who terrorised the Romans?

An engraving of Margaret Tudor

Tudor

The forgotten Tudor: Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII

Sunbathers on Blackpool beach in 1954. (Credit: John Chillingworth/Getty Images)

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Caravans, spa towns and seaside resorts: a brief history of British holidays. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A thin section of the Great Wall of China near Beijing

General ancient history

10 facts about the Great Wall of China

Magic stone in Laraibina village in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea on September 27, 2009. This magic stone is hidden in a tree in Laraibina village. It is very useful to call the rain or to make some magic actions on people. It is forbidden to touch it, only the witch doctor can hold it. The same kind of stones exists in Vanuatu. (Photo by Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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A sweeping history of magic – from witchcraft to shamanism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Death in the New Forest: how King William II met his demise. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian heroine Grace Darling (1815–1842) with her father, lighthouse keeper William Darling. They are rowing from the Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands off Northumberland, to rescue the passengers of the stricken ship 'SS Forfarshire'. (Photo by Nigel Dobinson/Getty Images)

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History heroMiriam Stoppard chooses Grace Darling (1815–1842). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A contemporary painting shows Parisians seizing weapons from the Hôtel des Invalides on 14 July 1789, ahead of the storming of the Bastille later that day. Before revolution swept through Paris, peasants across the country were abolishing a whole social order from below.

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The French Revolution: a tale of two revolutions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black Lives Matter activists in Seattle, June 2020. “Accounts of the past have failed to properly address persecution,” says Peter Frankopan. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)

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Interview: Peter Frankopan on the state of global history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting of the Princes in the Tower

Medieval

Did Richard III really kill the Princes in the Tower?

A portrait of Queen Anne of Great Britain and Ireland.

Stuart

Your guide to Queen Anne, the last of the Stuart monarchs

General ancient history

What is history's greatest mystery?

The Suez canal

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How significant was the Suez Crisis?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Chew Valley Hoard

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Unburied treasures: the 10 greatest discoveries made by the British public. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of Rudolph Hoess during his trial in Warsaw in 1947. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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Rudolf Höss & the men behind the mass murder at Auschwitz. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An 18th-century marble relief depicting Julius Caesar invading Britain by John Deare, a British neo-classical sculptor. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Geoffrey of Monmouth: the lost voice of ancient Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An aerial view of Tintagel Castle, Cornwall. (Photo by David Goddard/Getty Images)

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ExploreTintagel Castle and the legend of King Arthur. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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