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Pieces from the Lewis Chessmen, some of the earliest chessmen to survive.

In pictures: what are the Lewis Chessmen?

Greek slavery, Victorian heroism and Dan Snow on cars.

The Victorian telegraph and Dan Snow on his new series.

The LibraryThe conquest of Wales and Mary I.

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Poxed and Scurvied

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First books announced

A poster depicting a First World War soldier musing over having caught a venereal disease while on furlough.(Photo by David Pollack/Corbis via Getty Images)

Sex and the First World War: the Tommies who visited brothels.

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French Republican Calendar

Wars of music

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Imperial Endgame

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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.