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A man in Victorian dress holding a cane jumps on a beach

Can you guess the meaning of Victorian slang?.

A copy of the Declaration of Arbroath is held by the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh – the actual letter sent to Pope John XXII is lost (Photo by M.Brodie / Alamy Stock Photo)

The Declaration of Arbroath: your guide to Scotland's historic document

Wild urban spaces: a history.

Bronze Boudica statue against summer sky in London

What did Boudica’s Iceni warriors look like?

(l-r) Blanche, Marguerite and Jeanne of Burgundy, three sisters at the heart of a royal scandal and succession crisis in medieval France (Photos by The Picture Art Collection and ACTIVE MUSEUM / ACTIVE ART / Alamy Stock Photo)

Scandalous sisters: how three French princesses brought down the Capetian dynasty

Shepton Mallet Prison

Danny Robins' paranormal cold casesHMP Shepton Mallet.

My history heroMichelle Gayle chooses James Baldwin.

Boudica’s rebellion: a blood-soaked blow to the Roman empire.

A goat pokes its head over the fence at a city farm near Greenland Dock, London, which is still home to the Surrey Docks Farm

Urban animals: the growth of city farms in 20th-century Britain.

What did the Tudors wear?.

WW2 the big questions: the build up.

A small group of Argentine troops survey the scene not far from Port Stanley after arriving in the Falklands by helicopter (Photo by: SeM/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

What if...Argentina had won the Falklands War?.

British castles: everything you wanted to know.

Episode 6Paris.

The mindset behind the Holocaust.

Mary Sophia Money's brother, Robert Henry Money, is believed to have been the murderer 'Robert Hicks Murray'

Nell Darby's historical cold casesThe Money Murders.

Grisly killings & mysterious motives: murder in early modern Britain.

The man who almost discovered the double helix.

Marriage, Middlemarch & male pseudonyms: George Eliot’s unconventional life.

My history heroTim Dunn chooses John Betjeman.

Alexander Dreymon as Uhtred of Bebbanburg in Seven Kings Must Die

Seven Kings Must DieWhat to expect from the Last Kingdom movie

George VI’s Nazi dilemma.

The clocks change at South Station in Boston, Massachusetts. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

A brief history of daylight saving time

The Seven Years’ War: everything you wanted to know.

Henry VIII’s six wivesSecrets of the Tudor queens

Six WivesPeeling back the myths

Episode 5Istanbul.

Six wives: Katherine Parr.

Six wives: Anne of Cleves.

Six wives: Jane Seymour.