Period

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The fastest man on earth

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Scientists to investigate ‘British archaeology's greatest hoax’

Book review - Napoleon

A photograph of Queen Victoria and her descendants, taken in April 1894 in Coburg, Germany. The photograph shows Queen Victoria's position at the centre of a network of alliances created by strategic marriages, which gave her the name 'the grandmother of Europe'. (Alamy)

A photograph of Queen Victoria and her family: what can it tell us?

In the 16,000 years after the end of the last Ice Age, societies in Eurasia and the Americas followed radically different trajectories. Here, an Aztec priest offers the heart taken from a living person to the god of war, Huitzilopochtli. (Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

The old world and the new

Dickens on the move

Line engraving depicting the burning of Rawlins White, c1555. From a late 18th-century edition of John Foxe's 'The Book of Martyrs'. (Alamy)

The Making of Martyrs

German scientists Dr Carl Eisenmann, Dr Mersch, Dr Trabat and Dr Stocklin. (Express/Getty Images)

The intelligence war for German scientists

Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in the centre of Florence (Getty)

A big day in history: Florence's bonfire of the vanities

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Corfu 1864

Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917). (Alamy)

My history hero: Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917)

English medical student Roger Bannister

A history of British sport

Glenluce Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

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The BBC Story

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Masters of the Post: The Authorized History of the Royal Mail

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Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt

Why were people who died by suicide historically buried at crossroads?

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The BBC Story

An 18th century village in Germany. Strict laws regulated the goods that each social class could buy. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Beware what you buy: the goods German citizens were forbidden to consume

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Not sewing...

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Dave Musgrove talk at Kenwood House

Ironbridge

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Murder most horrid

Ancient Egypt through Victorian eyes

King George VI and stories from Africa

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17th-century Ranter

Chair used for the last execution at the Tower of London, c1940. Wooden chair on which the German Corporal Josef Jakobs was seated when he was shot as a spy in the Tower of London in August 1941. Two of the spindles have been shot away and the frame broken by bullets. Jakobs, who was seated due to an injured leg, was the last person to be executed at the Tower of London. (Credit: The Board of Trustees of the Armouries / HIP / TopFoto)

Q&A: Why was Josef Jakobs the only WW2 spy to be shot rather than hanged?

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Identifying the English: A History of Personal Identification 1500–2010

Whithorn Priory, Dumfries and Galloway

Second World War

Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II