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Pilgrim Fathers boarding the Mayflower

5 facts about the Mayflower

An East India Company official riding on an elephant

The East India Company: how a trading corporation became an imperial ruler

The Great Fire of London

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

The Pilgrim fathers arrive at Plymouth, Massachusetts on board the Mayflower. (Photo by Harold M. Lambert/Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

“They decided that God must be leading them to North America”: the Puritans journey to the Mayflower

The pilgrim fathers

Your guide to the Pilgrim Fathers, plus 6 interesting facts

A medieval king dining

Pig-chickens, beavers’ tails and turtle soup: 8 fascinating foods through history

Sunbathers on Blackpool beach in 1954. (Credit: John Chillingworth/Getty Images)

Caravans, spa towns and seaside resorts: a brief history of British holidays

A portrait of Queen Anne of Great Britain and Ireland.

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

The Kray brothers

The A-Z of British gangs and gangsters

Mary, Queen of Scots

9 of the worst monarchs in history

York Minster's rose window features 16th-century Tudor Roses white on red (left) and Lancastrian Roses, red

A brief history of the English rose

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

Battle of Culloden

General prehistory

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