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The 19th-century auction that saved Shakespeare’s birthplace. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Knights Templar. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1880 advertisement poster for Coca-Cola. The name derived from its extracts of coca leaves and kola nuts – the former did contain small amounts of cocaine. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Q&ADid the original Coca-Cola drink really contain cocaine?

William Marshal: the greatest knight. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The History Hot 100. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

‘Quacks’: the terrors and theatrics of Victorian medicine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Viking Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Arthur feasting at Camelot

Q&AHow old is the ‘British Empire’?

A deadly royal favourite?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

My favourite place: Cody, Wyoming

BBC History Magazine

The letters that reveal Horatio Nelson’s secrets

Queen Victoria behind closed doors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A boy sitting on a rock ledge above a refugee camp, October 1947. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The bloody road to partition: 8 landmark moments in the turbulent story. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Friends or enemies? Anglo-French relations. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A decade of domesticity: how the 1950s made the modern home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

The wartime wireless and the lost voice of Cyril Lakin

Migrating to Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Northern lights (aurora borealis) dances over an abandoned cabin in Tromsø, Northern Norway. (Photo by Hanneke Luijting via Getty Images)

My favourite place: Arctic Norway

The legacy of partition: an interview with Babita Sharma. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Jarrow March. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vaux-le-Vicomte: the inspiration for Louis XIV’s Versailles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite place: Florence

Sveti Georgi (St George) a Roman-era church is Sofia's oldest preserved building

ExploreSofia, Bulgaria: an emperor’s home from Rome. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The White House, Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

QuizHow much do you know about US presidents?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Professor Ronald Hutton © Jeni Nott

Witchcraft through the ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Woodcut of a meal shared at a witches' Sabbath. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Ronald Hutton on the Witch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

High Victorian style garden designed by James Bateman. (Getty Images)

History explorerVictorian gardens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edward the Black Prince receiving from his father, King Edward III, the conquered provinces of France gained during the Hundred Years' War. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Black Prince: a true prince of darkness?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A proponent of same-sex marriage protests outside the Houses of Parliament, 3 June 2013. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The Sexual Offences Act: a gay revolution?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of a public execution at Newgate, London, late 18th century. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The LibraryA deadly obsession in Victorian London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.