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Army of volunteers needed to investigate vulnerable buildings

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Books interview: Herodotus's 'The Histories'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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History Explorer: Neolithic treatment of the dead. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My History Hero: Franklin D Roosevelt (1882- 1945). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The June 1933 cover of the Radio Times. (Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

General Modern

Changing times: 90 years of the Radio Times

Medieval

The princes in the Tower: why was their fate never explained?

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Ye olde travel guide: Heidelberg 1618. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Period

Q&AWho was the last Groom of the Stool?

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‘Garnett’s Straw’

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Gertrude Bell: adventurer, diplomat, mountaineer and anti-suffragette. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Heritage funding and 'dumbing down' fears shared on Twitter

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'Britain needs police museum' says crime historian

President John F Kennedy speaking at a press conference, c1963. (Photo by National Archive/Newsmakers)

20th Century

Q&A: If President Kennedy hadn’t been wearing a back brace when he was assassinated, would he have lived?

Bronze Age

Researchers go into battle to test Bronze Age weapons

Medieval

Great Earl of Kildare 'extended English rule over Ireland'

First World War

Your 60-second guide to Ypres

Period

Music used 'to torment victims of torture in Pinochet’s Chile'

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History writers dominate Samuel Johnson Prize longlist

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Take a closer look at the battle of Flodden with our free interactive iPad app

"The important thing about the battle of Crécy is that Edward was clearly, in my view, using tactics and weapons that had never been seen on a battlefield before," says Richard Barber. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Books interview: Edward III and the triumph of England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Merchants and lower-ranking gentlemen often put pen to paper themselves, but wealthy men and gentlewomen were more likely to employ a scribe. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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How to send a letter in medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957–59

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Your country needs you! Volunteers called upon to transcribe historic archives

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Debate continues over truth behind 'oldest' Australia map

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Flodden 1513: the biggest ever Anglo-Scottish battle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, displayed remarkable leadership of the British army at the battle of Waterloo. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Waterloo: the historians' verdict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraved depiction of John Lilburne, who "stands as a towering icon of the liberal tradition". (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Stuart

My history hero: John Lilburne (c1615-57)

Medieval

Ye olde travel guide: Thessalonica 1423

Marston Moor, near York, was the site of the greatest battles of the Civil War – the battle of Marston. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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History explorer: the Civil War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Excavation search for soldiers killed on Flodden battlefield

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