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Ptolemy World map. Artist: Germanus, Donnus Nicolaus (ca. 1420-ca. 1490)

Ptolemy's maps: the father of modern Geography

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Sydney 1848

A British waitress serves American servicemen inside Rainbow Corner, Piccadilly, January 1945. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: life on the home front

First World War

The Great War

First World War

Why we should celebrate the First World War as well as commemorate it

Shibden Hall, Halifax

Sudley House, Liverpool

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Digitisation project sheds new light on Home Guard

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The Georges

An illustration titled ‘The petition for abolishing the slave trade’, from Amelia Opie’s ’The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar’, London, 1826. “Come, listen to my plaintive ditty,/Ye tender hearts, and children dear!/And, should it move your souls to pity,/Oh! try to end the griefs you hear.” (Photo by Photo 12/UIG via Getty Images)

9 key places connected to the abolition of the British slave trade

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The Last Highlander: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan-Chief, Rebel and Double-Agent

Weobley Castle, Swansea

‘Portrait of a Lady’ by Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, c1460. From the collection of the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval underwear: bras, pants and lingerie in the Middle Ages

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The correct piece of paper

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Was there ever an execution where rain saved someone from being burned at the stake?

A portrait of Russian queen Catherine the Great

In pictures: Catherine the Great

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The Day Parliament Burned Down

Argyll’s Lodging, Stirling

Detail of a column showing Norman soldiers, c12th century. (CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

In search of the Normans: who were they?

The White Tower, one of the oldest parts of the Tower of London complex, was built by William the Conqueror. (Getty Images)

Castles of the Conqueror

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Wreck sites under threat

A Victorian drawing room with pictures in heavy frames and ornately covered furniture, c1860. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Where history happened: Victorian collectors

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Bruges 1386

The battle of the Nile, fought at night in the Abu Qir Bay near Alexandria. (Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Second World War

Britain’s 10 most significant naval battles

My history hero: Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81)

Moscow 1980: going to the games

North East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland

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Giuseppe Garibaldi's body to be exhumed

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The Vicar of Bray

Scenes of frivolity in the 16th century. (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Bad sports? Puritan attempts to ban games in 17th-century England