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My history hero: Robert Baden Powell (1857–1941)

Ye olde travel guide: Caracas 1783

American poet Ezra Pound, a major figure of the early modernist movement. (Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images)

The march of the Green Shirts

Beaumaris Gaol, Anglesey, Wales. The prison could accommodate up to 30 inmates under the so-called 'silent system', in which inmates slept in separate cells at night but worked and attended chapels and classes together during the day. (Ashley Cooper via Getty Images)

History Explorer: 19th-century prison reform

Cold War culture and the path to the First World War

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Money: The Unauthorised Biography

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First ever kangaroo and dingo paintings to remain in UK

Top 5 Jane Austen recipes

Video: Gus Casely-Hayford on Timbuktu at BBC History Magazine's History Weekend

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My favourite historical places: Professor Peter Gaunt

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Ancient mummies found in Lima suburb

The Bava- Beccaris massacre?

Britain and America

Angles, Saxons and Jutes

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Fictional places

Were the pulverised bones of soldiers and horses who died at the battle of Waterloo sold as soil fertiliser?

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New website charts London's well-being across 125 years

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My favourite historical places: Professor Laura Gowing

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Revealed: the Houses of Parliament that never came to be

A photograph showing bronze hand-bells

Medieval Scotland

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The Conquest of the Ocean: The Illustrated History of Seafaring

Should we rewrite Jane Austen’s classic novels?

My favourite historical places: Professor Robert Bickers

Who's the best-dressed Briton in history?

Diary of the judge who hated Hitler to be published for first time

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“Forbear wine and tobacco”: advice for 17th-century university freshers revealed

Never-before-seen Roman artefacts to go on display for first time

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Army of volunteers needed to investigate vulnerable buildings

Books interview: Herodotus's 'The Histories'

"People in the Middle Ages coped better with death than we do"