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The battle of Agincourt and the Spanish communists. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The rise of Homo sapiens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1939: When Poland was torn to pieces. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite place: The Black Forest, south-west Germany

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

Sam’s historical recipe corner: Beef olives. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The history of humanity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

10 weird and wonderful historical newspaper stories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

William Blake: Apprentice and Master

My history hero: Samuel Pepys (1633-1703). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Anglo-Saxon who (almost) united Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hunting the regicides and the Chartist movement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The spy who loved Jamaica. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wolf Hall: Author Hilary Mantel talks Tudors and Thomas Cromwell. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite place: Antigua

Smuggling’s heyday in Bristol and beyond. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Thomas Cromwell: The rise and fall of Henry VIII’s henchman

Britain's fight for survival: Fortress Britain 1940. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryAncient Rome in crisis. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hitler’s jazz band: how the Nazis used swing as propaganda. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

17th-century 'Great British Bake Off' recipes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Top five hauntings in history

How did Tutankhamun die?

My history hero: Hendrik Witbooi (born c1830). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History explorer: The interwar holiday revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why were there so few casualties at Peterloo?

Janice Hadlow"The picture of George III’s family is often sad – these are genuinely thwarted lives". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite place: Delphi, Greece

10 astronomers you’ve (probably) never heard of

“Mooke, fylthe and other vyle things”: Tudor dirt and dung. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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