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A medieval illustration showing a doctor bleeding a patient

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A history of medicine 14 surprising facts

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Mary, Queen of Scots: The Scottish years . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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World Cup history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of the display cabinet where the World Cup was stolen

What a pickle: how England lost, found and won the World Cup in a single year

Mikhail Gorbachev as seen in a 1995 portrait. His leadership saw the Soviet Union undergo dramatic reform, leading to its dissolution in 1991 (Photo by Dana Gluckstein / mptvimages / eyevine)

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as a Cold War hero or a failed idealist: the historians’ verdict

Argentinian midfielder Mario Kempes celebrates a goal in the 1978 football World Cup final between hosts Argentina and Netherlands

Sportswashing: a historical perspective on a current trend

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Crassus: Rome’s richest man . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This statue of Alfred the Great stands in Winchester, the former 'capital' of his kingdom (Photo by TonyBaggett via Getty Images)

What if... Alfred the Great lost to the Vikings at the battle of Edington?

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Stained glass in Exeter Cathedral depicting King Æthelstan. (Dreamstime)

Video Michael Wood on the astonishing Æthelstan . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The pyramid of Chephren, the access tunnel discovered by Belzoni in 1818. (Photo by Getty Images)

Tomb raider: the great Giovanni Belzoni

A colourised photomontage depicts a young woman on her deathbed in 1858. The “fasting girls” phenomenon of the
19th century resulted in similar scenes being played out in British and American homes. (Photo by Gado/Getty Images)

Hidden lives Victorian fasting girls

Baptism of Christ c1567, by Juan Fernandez de Navarrete

The “silent study of art”: the deaf artists of the Renaissance

David Dimbleby commands the studio during the May 1997 general election

BBC at 100 Into the digital age

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Global stories of museum artefacts . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A still from American-made war epic All Quiet on the Western Front

Germany at a crossroads: Nazis, pacifism, and why the lessons of All Quiet on the Western Front still matter today