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A Very English Scandal. (BBCBlueprint Television Ltd)

History TV and radio: what’s on next week (19-25 May 2018)

Historian Simon Schama.

Books interview: Simon Schama

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King John hunting on horseback, 14th century. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Was King John murdered?

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5 reasons you won’t want to miss our York History Weekend

King John hunting on horseback

Was King John really that bad?… Yes!

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Why ‘Bad King John’ was actually Good

An illustration depicting King John signing Magna Carta in 1215. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

6 Magna Carta myths explained

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The real King John and the BBC in World War Two

A Victorian front cover of Lindisfarne Gospels.

The Lindisfarne Gospels

Newark Castle flanked by the river Trent. To say that King John's death here in 1216 was little-lamented is something of an understatement. "With John's foul deeds all England is stinking, as does hell, to which he is now sinking," wrote the chronicler Matthew Paris. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: King John and the French invasion

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A 13th-century miniature of King John. (AKG)

Q&A: Did King John ever display goodness?

Graffiti crosses found in churches

Church graffiti

Jerusalem's magnificent Dome of the Rock was deliberately designed to put a Muslim stamp on what had previously been a Christian city. (Getty Images)

The midwife of Islam

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A British military post in a street in Dublin during the Easter Uprising, 1916. (Photo by ullstein picture via Getty Images)

The history of Ireland: 11 milestone moments

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