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Historian and geographer Jared Diamond

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Books interview with Jared Diamond: “With countries, as with people, crises attract attention”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jared Diamond (Photo by Jochen Braun)

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Jared Diamond on countries in crisis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry, who would would later accede to the throne as Henry VIII, as a baby. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Tudor

Young Henry VIII: the boy who would be king

Great Pyramid of Giza. Egypt. (Photo by Olgakostenko | Dreamstime.com)

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10 of the most surprising numbers in history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Victorian lady washing in the nude

General ModerngalleryIn pictures: erotic postcards of the early 20th century

King Edward IV, who used the surname Plantagenet. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Q&AWhen did British kings and queens start using surnames?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1850 bronze statue by Thomas Thornycroft commemorating Boudica and her daughters. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Roman

Boudica: scourge of the Roman empire

HMS Portsmouth, Hampshire. (Getty Images)

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History explorerHMS Victory and the Georgian navy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of theologian and Bible translator John Wycliffe (c1330–84). (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Medieval

The murderous history of Bible translations

A depiction of Henry VIII and his only recognised illegitimate child, Henry Fitzroy. (Illustration by Glen McBeth for BBC History Magazine)

Tudor

Q&ADid Henry VIII acknowledge any of his illegitimate children?

Scottish nobles gathering in the 17th century

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Scotland on the brink: the nation's final years of independence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Japanese troops celebrate the capture of a British artillery position, Hong Kong, December 1941 (Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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The lion and the rising sun: Britain and Japan's 400-year relationship. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ancient Greece

A brief history of marathons

British spy writer Ian Fleming at his home, Goldeneye, in Jamaica. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express Newspapers/Getty Images)

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The man behind James Bond. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British military behind a barricade, 1916. (Photo by ullstein picture via Getty Images)

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The Easter Rising: when Ireland went to war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Osborne House from terrace.

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Inside Osborne: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's island residence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784 - 1865), the British Liberal statesman who served almost continually as Prime Minister between 1855 and 1865, pictured circa 1860. (Photo by Herbert Fry/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Lord Palmerston: the people’s champion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration from 1883 shows the phrenology chart of the skull

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The Victorian phrenology craze. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Notre Dame of Paris at first light (Photo by Captblack76-Dreamstime.com)

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Notre-Dame. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anita Anand, photographed in London. "My grandfather was in Amritsar on the day of the massacre. This story has been woven into my DNA," she says. (Photography by Alastair Levy)

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Books interview with Anita Anand: “Singh hoped that he would be the catalyst for a revolution”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Seeking to remove opponents who questioned his right to be head of church and state, Henry VIII was ruthless in his pursuit of those he deemed traitors. (Image by Alamy)

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Henry VIII's hitmen: the Tudor king's secret hunt for traitors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The west Cornish tomb Lanyon Quoit, which dates to the Neolithic period (3500–2500 BC). The Anglo-Saxons believed that ancient burial sites were cursed – and guarded by dragons. (Image by Dreamstime)

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Giants, dragons and Middle Earth: the Anglo-Saxon fear of the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A protester in a headlock, Southall, April 1979, when a member of the Anti-Nazi League died after being struck on the head. (Images by Getty Images)

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1979: Britain in meltdown. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Thatcher holds up two shopping bags to show how much less a pound would buy due to inflation under Labour. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Are we still living in Thatcher’s Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A souvenir for a burlesque adaptation of the classic opera 'Carmen' at the Gaiety Theatre, 1890. (Image by Bridgeman)

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Victorian burlesque: cheap thrills for the chattering classes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Empire Cinema and Casino, Leicester Square, London. It was originally a theatre and ballet venue, before reopening as a music hall in 1884. (Image by Alamy)

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History explorer: The birth of British cinema. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The photogenic Trevi Fountain is a highlight of most visits to Rome. (Image by Getty Images)

Roman

My favourite place: Rome, Italy

Wilfred Thesiger in Oman, c1946. "He was able to cope without sleep, and aI don't think he knew pain," says Frank Gardner. (Image by Bridgeman)

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My history hero: Frank Gardner chooses Wilfred Thesiger. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Blenheim Palace in a c1880 print from ‘A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland’, edited by Reverend FO Morris, Volume I, William Mackenzie, London. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Stuart

10 things you might not know about Blenheim Palace

The food served at the wedding of Joffrey Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell may be inspired by accounts of ancient Roman excess, says Ayelet Haimson Lushkov. (© Home Box Office, Inc/Sky Atlantic)

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Power plays and scheming queens: the ancient history behind Game of Thrones. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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