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Daily quiz28 September. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How Henry VII seized – and kept – the crown. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Robot wars in the classroom: why AI in education is nothing new. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Daily quiz27 September. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite image shows German SS officer Gottlob Berger on the left and British officer George Lascelles on the right. Colditz Castle, where Lascelles was held as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, looms in the background.

Second World War

Hitler ordered my father’s death – but an SS general spared his life

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Are these history's greatest losers? 19 people who had glory snatched away from them. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Daily quiz26 September. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Daily quiz25 September. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo still from a period drama set in an overgrown grassy meadow. Two young women in early 19th-century dresses — one in gray with braided hair, the other in a lilac gown — stand close together, while a man in a green greatcoat, dark waistcoat, and tall brown top hat points off to the side, looking in that direction. Tall trees and hedgerows form the background under an overcast sky

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Is Sense and Sensibility a true reflection of life in Georgian Britain? The real history behind the new adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel

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The Soviet spy who couldn't love. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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In 1895, a Chicago housewife left her family to cycle around the world. But was it all a hoax?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Western and Chinese ships gather off the Chinese coast during the 19th-century Opium Wars.

Victorian

Was the British Empire really built on drugs? The unlikely rise of an imperial superpower

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History crossword18 September. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Daily quiz24 September. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Thatcher, pubs and poverty porn: a gritty history of British sitcoms. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Medieval

This strange medieval ritual was designed to protect a mother from grief. How did it work?

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The slave ship that changed history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 3Elizabeth’s enemies: plots, rivals and the Spanish Armada. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Daily quiz22 September. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Have we overlooked England’s local histories?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 6Why the Nazis loved the Bayeux Tapestry. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 5The mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Daily quiz21 September. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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D-Day could have ended in disaster – but one Scottish hero changed everything. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The making of the modern Middle East. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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In 1944, Hitler threatened London with a new "wonder weapon". How did resistance fighters race to stop him?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Was Alexander the Great addicted to sex? The truth about the conqueror's love life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Daily quiz19 September. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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