Period

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First World War

July 1914: Countdown to War

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Army of volunteers needed to investigate vulnerable buildings

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The search for Richard III: Philippa Langley and Michael Jones share their thoughts

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Painting ‘reveals Walter Ralegh’s secret desire for Elizabeth I’

Photo of the inside of an abandoned house bedroom

Frozen in time

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First World War

First World War warship HMS Monitor M33 to open to public for first time

Bust of Herodotus.

Books interview: Herodotus’s ‘The Histories’

Temptation, scenes of devils in everyday life (a banquet, war, love, marriage etc), folio 215V of Breviary of Love, late 13th - early 14th century Provencal codex by Ermengol de Bziers (detail) | Photo Credit: [ The Art Archive / Real biblioteca de lo Escorial / Gianni Dagli Orti ]

“People in the Middle Ages coped better with death than we do”

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Campaigners dismayed by demolition of Chartist uprising mural

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Tales of Two Cities

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Drying times ahead for Henry VIII’s Mary Rose warship

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Lost portrait of 17th-century feminist to go on display for first time

Professor Richard Bradley investigates the Neolithic tomb of Wayland's Smithy. The stone monument we see today hides an earlier wooden structure that held the remains of 14 people. (Photo by Oliver Edwards)

General prehistory

History Explorer: Neolithic treatment of the dead

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My History Hero: Franklin D Roosevelt (1882- 1945)

The June 1933 cover of the Radio Times. (Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Changing times: 90 years of the Radio Times