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A London Missionary Society (LMS) mission in Papua New Guinea, c1920s. (Photo by Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo)

Married to a missionary.

Hylands House, Essex

In 1830 a keeper at the Tower of London menagerie accidentally removed the barrier between a lion and two tigers. The animals were eventually prised apart, by which point the lion had been fatally wounded. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Life with the lions: the Tower of London menagerie.

Illustration by Jonty Clark

Ye olde travel guide: New Orleans 1858.

Dover War Tunnels

The surprisingly long history of humanity's political development

The A to Z of royal weddings with Tracy Borman.

Britain’s slaves in Latin America.

A big day in history: the debate on whether Britain should join the European Community.

My history hero: Samuel Johnson (1709-84).

Lincoln’s British enemies.

Illustration by Jonty Clark

Ye olde travel guide: St Petersburg 1725.

Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall

Civil rights and the Civil War.

Two women from South America. Six centuries ago South American civilisations matched the west in some respects. (Getty Images)

The wonder of the west

Barbary pirates: kidnapped in Iceland.

England and Wales: best of enemies?.

Jerusalem: blood and gold.

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Robert Burns: the people’s poet.

Toilers of the deep: the lives of Edwardian deep sea fishermen

The Beatles - John Lennon. (ITV pictures)

John Lennon: Three films

A bus makes its way down Fleet Street towards Ludgate Hill Circus and St Paul's Cathedral, London, c1888. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A history of the high street

What did the Baby Boomers Ever do for Us?

England in miniature.

American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) who wrote under the pseudonym of Mark Twain, standing outside on a porch. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Mark Twain: America’s historical conscience?.

The Atlantic and Its Enemies

The reverend in the lion’s den

My history hero: Philip Pembroke Stephens (1903–37).

‘Smugglers', c1785, from ‘Adventures by sea from art of old time’ by Basil Lubbock. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Smugglers and the birth of Britain’s consumer society.