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Author/veterinarian Dr. James Alfred Wight (pen name James Herriot) holding up a black cat that he is examining at his veterinary surgery.

Who was the real James Herriot? The true story behind All Creatures Great and Small

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How ancient India transformed the world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video podcast Michelangelo: life of the week . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Video podcast The Iranian embassy siege: an SAS hostage drama in London . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Who was Lee Miller? The model-turned-war correspondent who photographed WW2 horrors

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A Chinese tank nears the city of Lang Son in Vietnam, 1979 and (right) Chinese and Vietnamese ministers meet for talks, 1991. Rana Mitter highlights the role of diplomacy in bringing war between Vietnam and China to an end.

Historians debate: how do intractable conflicts come to an end? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Weekly history quiz from the team at HistoryExtra

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Quiz of the week Perillus of Athens is said to have invented what torture device?

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History TV and radio in the UK: what’s on our screens this week?

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The Iranian embassy siege: an SAS hostage drama in London . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood on the rise of Britain’s universities . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Roman emperor Tiberius. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Who are the most underrated Roman emperors? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hand-coloured engraving of someone being tortured on the wheel.

Stretched, crushed and impaled 10 shocking torture methods from medieval history

Bust of the Roman Emperor Lucius Verus.

The Antonine Plague: the killer disease that devastated the Roman empire

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Native Americans: a history of power and survival