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Solving the mystery of the Elephant Man?

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My favourite historical places: Dr Marc Morris

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Historian at the Movies: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cabinet papers reveal 'secret coal pits closure plan'

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Khudadad Khan

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My history hero: Khudadad Khan (1888-1971). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Becca Thorne.

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Deadly beasts of Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ye olde travel guide: Prague 1600. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Can Britain make nuclear power work this time around?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ed Morrison with Nelson Mandela. (Image: Ed Morrison)

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When I met Mandela: 1995 Rugby World Cup final

This detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron – a richly decorated silver vessel thought to date from the second-century BC – depicts a Celtic god or druid surrounded by beasts. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

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The genius of the Celts. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved its Heritage

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Nelson Mandela special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My favourite historical places: Dr Elaine Farrell

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Renewed debate over battle of Hastings location

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Historian at the Movies: Saving Mr. Banks reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My favourite historical places: Dr Julie Barrau

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Harry Houdini escape artist props to go under hammer

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History explorer: the catastrophe of the Black Death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ye Olde Travel Guide: Ballarat 1854. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Simon Thurley at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire. It was here, in 1771, that Richard Arkwright set up his first water-powered mills, "bringing people to a single place where they could be organised into an efficient workforce". (BBC History commissioned portrait by Mike Abrahams)

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History Explorer: the rise of the factory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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The Cold War in your living room. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"Nobody could have held their nerve in Normandy like Monty did," says Al Murray of the wartime general. (Photo by Mark Kauffman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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

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Books interview: Margaret MacMillan on the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John and Jackie Kennedy shaking hands with a crowd. Jackie continued to fight her husband's corner after his death, says Mark White. (Photo by Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Was JFK a good president?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The race to save western Europe's 'rarest historic buildings'

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Self-portraits: How people took selfies in the past

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Historian at the Movies: Parkland reviewed. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My favourite historical places: Joanna Innes

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Vibrations rotate Manchester Museum's ancient statue

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