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    Norman cavalry on the charge in the Bayeux Tapestry. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)
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    ever before,” says Margaret MacMillan. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)
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    “We’ve come to think that peace is normal, but that’s not the reality”: Margaret MacMillan on humanity’s compulsion to go to war

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    The birth pains of the NHS: how Britain’s National Health Service was created

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    Ragnar Lothbrok: the legend of the immortal Viking and his sons

    Mona Baptiste, a Trinidad-born blues singer
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    “London is the place for me”: David Olusoga on the Windrush generation

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    The city of Bern, Switzerland.
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    Where history happened Ancient forests

    Keith Thomas. (Photo by Fran Monks)
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    Books interview with Keith Thomas: “The world was divided into the ‘civil’ and the ‘barbarous’”

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    Vera Brittain, who worked as a nurse during the First World War and went on to become one of the leading writers of the interwar years. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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