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History Explorer: Neolithic treatment of the dead

My History Hero: Franklin D Roosevelt (1882- 1945)

The June 1933 cover of the Radio Times. (Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Changing times: 90 years of the Radio Times

The princes in the Tower: why was their fate never explained?

Ye olde travel guide: Heidelberg 1618

Bright ideas

Q&AWho was the last Groom of the Stool?

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‘Garnett’s Straw’

Gertrude Bell: adventurer, diplomat, mountaineer and anti-suffragette

Richard III tomb design unveiled by Leicester Cathedral

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Heritage funding and 'dumbing down' fears shared on Twitter

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'Britain needs police museum' says crime historian

President John F Kennedy speaking at a press conference, c1963. (Photo by National Archive/Newsmakers)

Q&A: If President Kennedy hadn’t been wearing a back brace when he was assassinated, would he have lived?

First World War

First World War drama The Wipers Times an instant hit with viewers

Researchers go into battle to test Bronze Age weapons

Great Earl of Kildare 'extended English rule over Ireland'

First World War

Your 60-second guide to Ypres

Music used 'to torment victims of torture in Pinochet’s Chile'

First World War

Telling jokes in the trenches: First World War newspaper The Wipers Times celebrated in new BBC drama

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History writers dominate Samuel Johnson Prize longlist

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Take a closer look at the battle of Flodden with our free interactive iPad app

"The important thing about the battle of Crécy is that Edward was clearly, in my view, using tactics and weapons that had never been seen on a battlefield before," says Richard Barber. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

Books interview: Edward III and the triumph of England

Merchants and lower-ranking gentlemen often put pen to paper themselves, but wealthy men and gentlewomen were more likely to employ a scribe. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How to send a letter in medieval England

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Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957–59

Richard III 'had roundworm infection'

BBC History Magazine

Your country needs you! Volunteers called upon to transcribe historic archives

BBC History Magazine

Debate continues over truth behind 'oldest' Australia map

Flodden 1513: the biggest ever Anglo-Scottish battle

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, displayed remarkable leadership of the British army at the battle of Waterloo. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Waterloo: the historians' verdict

An engraved depiction of John Lilburne, who "stands as a towering icon of the liberal tradition". (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: John Lilburne (c1615-57)