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British schools and education: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Clare Jackson with her Wolfson History Prize winning book, Devil-land
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The story of England’s turbulent Stuart century wins the Wolfson History Prize 2022

Mowgli is surrounded by wolves in a 1937 illustration from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book
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Raised by wolves: the history of feral children

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An environmental history of big business

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African-American philanthropy  . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Recentering African narratives . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Reconstructing the body of God . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Our illustration imagines the Suffolk woman Olivia Cranmer, who carved out a successful career managing the family plot of land in the wake of the Black Death. (Illustration by Sarah Young)
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Lucy Worsley on three extraordinary lives The survivor, the 'incurable' and the scapegoat

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Crime & punishment in Britain: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A portrait of William Shakespeare
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History quiz – language and literature . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Has Britain always looked backwards? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Shady deals & rigged elections: the changing face of corruption . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

View of Windsor Castle's East Terrace
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Fit for a queen Elizabeth II's royal residences

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Witchcraft: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Max Schreck took the title role in the 1922 German silent film 'Nosferatu', inspired by Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'. The film enjoys a cult following. (Photo by ullstein picture / ullstein picture via Getty Images)
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“Ghoul-like beyond nightmare dream, they were the living dead”: belief in Vampires through history