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Making a splash: Diana relishes taking her sons on a water ride at the Thorpe Park theme park in 1993. William has since recalled how his mother loved

Princess Diana: a “modern” mother who ripped up the rule book

President Nixon making final TV address

The 5 most notorious presidents in US history

Mary Fissell on the history of medicine. (Image by Getty Images)

The history of medicine: everything you wanted to know

c1952: Queen Elizabeth II with a young Prince Charles and Princess Anne in the grounds of Balmoral Castle, Scotland. (Photo by Lisa Sheridan/Studio Lisa/Getty Images)

Queen Elizabeth II: mother, monarch, matriarch

The three shortlisted finalists for the 2020 Cundill History Prize.

Judges reveal the finalists of the 2020 Cundill History Prize

The British royal family at the Queen's annual birthday parade 2019

A brief guide to the British royal family, by The Crown’s historian Robert Lacey

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln, Adams and George W Bush: the 6 most disputed presidential elections in American history

Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Even after her death in 2013, her record continued to be fiercely contested. (Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)

How should history remember Margaret Thatcher?

A late 16th century portrait of Anne Boleyn (c.1500-1536)

Anne Boleyn, Beefeaters, Guy Fawkes and the princes: a brief history of the Tower of London

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Chris Harding answers questions on the history of Japan

The history of Japan: everything you wanted to know

An illustration of slaves picking cotton on a plantation. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

David Olusoga "Black history affects all of us – it is British history"

Afua Hirsh with her ‘Enslaved’ co-presenters Simcha Jacobovici and Samuel L Jackson

Afua Hirsch on tracing the story of the transatlantic slave trade

Grigory Yefimovich Novykh, also known as Rasputin

Rasputin: the ‘mad monk’ who became a friend to the Romanovs

Emma Corrin as Princess Diana in season 4 of 'The Crown'. (Photo by Netflix)

The Crown S4 news: Netflix releases first images of Princess Diana and Margaret Thatcher