Period

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Wrong number

Second World War

Murmansk

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Do we need a museum of British history?

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Mao’s Great Famine

Hylands House, Essex

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A British institution

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The winner of our Tudor quiz has been announced

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Rudolf Hess's grave is exhumed

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Pronounced how?

Conwy Castle, Conwy

The LibrarySummer holidays and Edward VI.

The LibraryThe career of one of England's most well-known kings.

The origins of the Tudors.

Back to school and Hitler's schemes for war.

Britain under Roman rule and the truth about the crusades.

Field Marshal Harold Alexander, pictured in 1943. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

My history heroField Marshal Harold Alexander (1891–1969).

Clean-up crews salvaging what they can from the ruins of buildings in Hornsey, a north London suburb, 1944. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Hitler's secret weapon.

Britain’s waterways have enjoyed a renaissance since the Second World War. (Photo by George W Johnson/Getty Images)

History explorer: Britain’s inland waterways.

A detail of a funerary monument from Athens, Greece depicting a squire taming a horse. Holding elaborate funerals was one of the many ways in which aristocrats broadcast their great wealth. (Photo By DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The trouble with luxury.

A Saracen attack on Crusaders, from the French manuscript 'Chroniques de Saint Denis', c1200. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Traders and crusaders.

Illustration by Jonty Clark

Ye olde travel guide: Constantinople 976.

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A Prussian showman

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The invention of the bathtub

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The British Confederate

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Politicians should resist the urge to invoke the wartime spirit

Second World War

Aerial bombing

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The Trials of Margaret Clitherow

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The making of Wales

In 1830 a keeper at the Tower of London menagerie accidentally removed the barrier between a lion and two tigers. The animals were eventually prised apart, by which point the lion had been fatally wounded. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Life with the lions: the Tower of London menagerie.

Captain Kidd

The sacrifice of Captain Kidd.