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The Spanish Armada: one of history’s biggest fibs?

Anne Boleyn (left) and her daughter, Elizabeth I. (Photos by Getty Images)
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What did Elizabeth I think of her mother, Anne Boleyn? Historian Tracy Borman explains

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The Globe theatre fire of 1613: when Shakespeare’s playhouse burned down

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Amy Robsart: a Tudor tragedy

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Robert Dudley: Queen Elizabeth I’s great love

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Francis Drake’s forgotten role in the English slave trade

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How William Shakespeare shaped America

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Shakespeare and America

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Europe’s holy war: how the Reformation convulsed a continent

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