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Queen Elizabeth II

How to be a successful monarch

In pictures: kings and queens through history

Inishbofin, Ireland

My favourite place: Inishbofin, Ireland

A portrait of the writer and antiquarian John Aubrey

John Aubrey: chronicler of the 17th century

The many lives of India

Man smoking a pipe, early 17th century

Q&AWhen was tobacco first thought to be dangerous?

Photo of pipe and tobacco

Q&ADid people smoke anything before tobacco was discovered?

Guy Fawkes “is like a modern-day jihadist,” says counter-terrorism expert

Picture of the Frost Fair on the Thames

Q&ADid the Thames used to freeze over?

A portrait of Charles II, by 17th-century painter John Michael Wright

History explorer: The Restoration

Coughton Court, an English country house

History explorer: The gunpowder plot

'Portrait of Oliver Cromwell', (c1653?).

Oliver Cromwell: Hero or Villain?

The Berlin Wall and the return of Charles II

The Gunpowder Plot and the First World War

Samuel Pepys portrait

My history hero: Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)

Picture of Chrysippus of Soli

Q&AHas anyone ever died of laughter?

10 astronomers you’ve (probably) never heard of

'The butterfly hunt' (1874) by Berthe Morisot

The LibraryFirst ladies of art: three trailblazing female artists from history

Portrait of Miranda Kaufmann. (Image by Jeni Nott)

History explorer: Africans in Tudor and Stuart Britain

Picture depicting the Articles of Union being presented to Queen Anne

Q&AWhy did Scotland join the 1707 Union with England?

Shakespeare: 7 burning questions about his life

The Sedgeford Portrait, which is said to show Pocahontas and her young son, Thomas. (Photo by Getty)

In search of the real Pocahontas

1,138: The number of London children recorded as dying of “teeth” in 1685. (Illustration: James Albon for BBC History Magazine)

History’s most surprising statistics

A depiction of the battle of Naseby

Did Roundheads and Cavaliers really dress so differently?

Who's the best-dressed Briton in history?

An engraved depiction of John Lilburne, who "stands as a towering icon of the liberal tradition". (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: John Lilburne (c1615-57)

Marston Moor, near York, was the site of the greatest battles of the Civil War – the battle of Marston. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

History explorer: the Civil War

The LibraryThe downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots and a British civil rights struggle

Margam Park, Port Talbot

Smithills Hall, Bolton