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Guillaume Apollinaire and his wife, Jacqueline Kolb, on the terrace of the boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, France, in 1918. (Photo by adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)

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My history hero: Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charles II entering London in May 1660 following the restoration of the monarchy. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

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Clare Jackson"Charles II had to appeal to public opinion more than his predecessors did". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ruins of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. Henry’s motives when dismantling such monasteries “were much more complex than pure revenge or pure avarice alone”, says Adam Morton. (Photo by Getty Images)

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History explorer6 places to explore the dissolution of the monasteries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman garden at the House of the Golden Cupids, Pompeii. (Linda Farrar)

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A guide to ancient gardening. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Supporting troops of the 1st Australian Division walking on a duckboard track near Hooge, in the Ypres Sector, 5 October 1917. (Photo by Frank Hurley/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

First World War

What caused the First World War?

Stuart

A giant leap for mankind: William Harvey reveals the circulation of the blood

Chinese lanterns at Kek Lok Si temple, George Town, Penang, Malaysia. (Photo by Inti St Clair/Getty Images)

20th Century

My favourite place: Penang, Malaysia

An illustration from an 11th-century manuscript depicting a king and his minister doing justice, c1050. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Medieval English law in the time of Magna Carta. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kidding/not kidding: a medieval sense of humour. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aerial view on Westminster Abbey at night. (Photo by Pawel Libera/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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7 of England’s best medieval buildings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Joan of Kent. (Image by Getty)

Medieval

Joan of Kent: a perfect princess?

The Grand Bridge at Blenheim. (Getty Images)

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History explorerBlenheim Palace and Capability Brown. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bhimrao Ambedkar, May 1946. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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A portrait of Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty which ruled over much of India from 1526 to 1858. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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How people make the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

(Photo By DEA/G DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

Tudor

The Tudor sex guide

Elizabeth I’s Armada portrait. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images

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The Tudors’ unlikely allies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of Edmund Spenser’s poetic work ‘The Shepheardes Calender’. (Photo by Culture Club/Contributor/Getty Images)

Elizabethan

The dark side of Elizabethan England

An illustration from Dickinson's ‘Comprehensive Pictures of The Great Exhibition’. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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Heyday: the 1850s and the dawn of the global age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Borris, County Carlow, Ireland. (Photo by Timothy Seren/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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The wild man of County Carlow. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh wave from the famous balcony at Buckingham Palace after the Queen's coronation on 2 June 1953. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

20th Century

7 memorable moments in the history of Buckingham Palace

Victorian

The Revenant and the real Hugh Glass: how historically accurate is the film?

BBC History Magazine

April 2016

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Q&AWhy did the Germans never convince the Japanese to start a serious invasion of the Soviet Union during the Second World War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tudor

Britain's 10 best palaces

French troops under shellfire during the battle of Verdun. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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The LibraryVerdun - hell on Earth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A relief at the World Heritage site of Xanadu in Inner Mongolia, China. (Photo by Dreamstime)

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My favourite place: Xanadu, China

President Ronald Reagan at Durenberger Republican convention rally, 1982. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Ronald Reagan (1911–2004). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of HMS Intrepid, under the command of Irish explorer Captain Francis Leopold McClintock, trapped in pack ice in Baffin Bay, c1853. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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OpinionWhy the British love a plucky loser. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of Victoria Woodhull addressing a congressional committee on the benefits of women's suffrage, 1871. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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The LibraryThe one-woman revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Romanovs, 1913: Nicholas II with his wife and children. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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Books interview with Simon Sebag Montefiore: The Romanovs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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