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How should history remember Margaret Thatcher?

Sparta

Actor Stephanie Levi-John as Lina in 'The Spanish Princess'

Catalina: the real history of The Spanish Princess favourite

Princess Anne and Queen Elizabeth II

In profile: Princess Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II

The battle of Dover, 24 August 1217, (image c1880). (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Eustace the Monk: one of medieval Europe's unholiest holy men

In 802 Charlemagne took delivery of an elephant, sent to him by Harun al-Rashid, the caliph in Baghdad. Here, a manuscript illumination from a late 12th century English Latin bestiary. (Image by Alamy)

8 turning points in medieval European history

The storming of Beziers

Medieval turning points

The ‘Black Terror’: the story of Britain's first black sports star

A photograph of the Tower of London, from the river

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

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 8: A conclusion (of sorts)

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 7: Survival theories

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 6: The other suspects

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 5: Circumstantial evidence and strange behaviour

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 4: Examining the evidence

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 3: The prime suspect

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 2: The timeline

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 1: The case

Painting of Pope Callixtus II, the first Borgia pope, though it would be his nephew Rodrigo (later Pope Alexander VI) who would earn great infamy

Your guide to...the Borgias

The rise and fall of the Sikh empire

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Chris Harding answers questions on the history of Japan

The history of Japan: everything you wanted to know

Portrait of Catherine of Aragon

Catherine of Aragon: Spain’s Virgin queen?

Arnhem: the Battle for the Bridges, 1944

Author Kate Summerscale (Photo by Fran Monks)

A 1930s ghost hunt

Life in bondage Formerly enslaved African-Americans sit for a photograph in Virginia, c1850. At that time, 4 million people were still enslaved across the US, as debates around abolition raged on both sides of the Atlantic (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

The black abolitionists who shocked Victorian Britain

Q&A: Why and how did the Aztecs practise human sacrifice?

Portrait of an African man, c1530 . (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The missing Tudors: black people in 16th-century England

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

The ‘Pilgrims’ stride onto American soil in 1620 after crossing the Atlantic on the Mayflower, as shown in a 20th-century painting. The colony that they established was – initially, at least – a genuinely enlightened place, writes James Evans. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Myth of the Mayflower: the voyage that made America?