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This painting in Kensington Palace shows a group standing on a balustrade. Among them are George I’s two Turkish grooms of the chamber, ‘Mustapha’ and ‘Mohamed’. (Photo by Steve Vidler/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Tales of the Turk. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A poster produced for the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) promoting express rail travel to the Lancashire seaside resort of Blackpool

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The great escape: Britain's love affair with the seaside holiday. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hans Holbein the Younger’s portrait of Henry VIII, c1537. Henry’s clash with the church was, says George Bernard, the most significant episode of the Tudor era and transformed England’s relationship with continental Europe. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The LibraryHenry VIII and the scourge of papal power

A crowned Tudor rose. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Stringer via Getty Images)

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Why the Tudors grab us. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Jonty Clark

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Ye olde travel guide: Rome 192 AD. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A statue of Æthelflæd which stands in the grounds of Tamworth Castle in Staffordshire. (Photo by Chris Gibson/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Æthelflæd: iron lady of Mercia. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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TimelineKey moments in the American civil rights movement

Napoleon Bonaparte of France. (Hulton Fine Art Collection via Getty Images)

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Bad manners and a game of thrones: inside the court of Napoleon Bonaparte. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Designer duo, husband and wife Robin and Lucienne Day, 1955. The pair “were perhaps the greatest British man and wife design team there has ever been”, says Wayne Hemingway. (Photo by Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy Stock Photo)

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My history hero: Robin Day (1915–2010) and Lucienne Day (1917–2010). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Martin Luther King waves to supporters on the Mall in Washington DC during the March on Washington, 28 August 1963. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

20th Century

Martin Luther King's unfinished dream: the historians' view

Hitler meets members of the Reich Labour Service. (Photo by AKG)

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Q&A: Are any laws made by the Nazi regime still in use?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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Brunel: a hard taskmaster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charlie Chaplin, in a still from his 1936 film 'Modern Times’. (Photo by American Stock/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Charlie Chaplin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bikes on a canal in Amsterdam and the Basilica of Saint Nicholas church in the background. (Photo by maydays via Getty Images)

General Modern

My favourite place: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Shackles that were used to tether slaves, on display at the International Slavery Museum. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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History explorer: the British slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John Julius Norwich pictured at the Oxford Literary Festival in 2014. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

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Books interview with John Julius Norwich: “Most British people know practically nothing about French history”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry VIII “regarded his wars as the worthy successors of the great martial victories of England’s past”, says Steven Gunn. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

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The LibraryTotal war in Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Catherine of Siena, who in the 1360s experienced a vision from God during which – according to her biographer, Raymond of Capua – she drank the water from the wound in Christ’s side. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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The medieval mystics with a hotline to God. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel. “For the century following his death, the British public was less inclined to revere Brunel than we are today”, says Crosbie Smith.(Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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The LibraryBrunel: the flawed genius. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Husband and wife Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling (Madame Chiang), pictured at their wedding in 1928. The pair “dominated Chinese politics for two decades [and] were among the most prominent non-westerners on the planet throughout the 1930s and 1940s”, says Rana Mitter. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Six lives that shaped China. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Spring Offensive, 1918. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Germany’s final gamble. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Sultanahmet district in Istanbul, Turkey, which is classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. (Photo by DOZIER Marc via Getty Images)

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A new civilisation rises. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Benjamin Tillett, organiser of the Docker's Union and leader of the London Transport Worker's strike in 1911, addressing a rally of the strikers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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The essay: Britain’s cautious revolutionaries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving from Ulrich Molitor’s ‘On witches and female soothsayers’, depicting witches bringing down the rain. Germany, 15th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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A spell-binding history of witches. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Radio Times cover, 1931. (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

20th Century

Radio nation

Wendy Webster. (Photo by Claire Wood/BBC)

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Books interview with Wendy Webster: “In its finest hour, Britain’s population was multiethnic and multinational”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill, 1941. (Photo by War Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

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History heroBarbara Taylor Bradford chooses Winston Churchill (1874–1965). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The execution of Charles I. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Tudor

Murder, conspiracy and execution: six centuries of scandalous royal deaths

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Uncovering China's Terracotta Army. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The LibraryFemale suffrage: Victory at last!. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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