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A portrait of Samuel Pepys, English writer and diarist. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Samuel Pepys

Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Marston Moor. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

ON THIS DAY 2 July 1644, the battle of Marston Moor

Illustration from Dante's ‘Inferno', depicting thieves tormented in hell by serpents.

General ancient history

A brief history of the afterlife

A portrait of Queen Anne of Great Britain and Ireland.

Your guide to Queen Anne, the last of the Stuart monarchs

Battle of Culloden

General prehistory

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Scottish history

Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton: life, discoveries, rivalries and the truth about the apple

Two girls are tried for witchcraft in a courtroom scene

What were the Salem Witch Trials?

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Coffee, plague and the Great Fire: the pleasures and perils of living in Restoration London

The Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London: how the ferocious blaze of 1666 destroyed the capital

Men operate a cotton gin in Dahomey, Mississippi, in 1898

7 key questions about the transatlantic slave trade – answered

An African man after being liberated from a slave ship by the Royal Navy, 1871. In all, more than 12 million captives were loaded onto Atlantic slavers’ vessels. (Pictures from History/Bridgeman Images)

A brief guide to the transatlantic slave trade

Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Civil War, but were afraid to ask

Charles II and his parties

Charles II: was the king too randy to rule?

The 1618 Defenestration of Prague

The 1618 Defenestration of Prague explained

The Great Plague, from a pictorial broadsheet of 1665-1666 (Photo by Getty Images)

Surviving the Great Plague