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Dr Sara Read explores women’s experience of pregnancy and childbirth in early modern England. (Image by Getty Images)

Giving birth in the 17th century

An illustration of the Gunpowder Plot principal conspirators, copied from a rare print published at the time (5 November 1605). (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images).

Remember remember the 5th of November: why Bonfire Night is a 400-year-old political hot potato

Fireworks on Guy Fawkes Day c1800

A very short history of bonfire night

Guy Fawkes and the men behind the gunpowder plot. Guy Fawkes, best known of the conspirators, is third from the right. (Print Collector/Getty Images)

Why did the 1605 gunpowder plot fail? 9 big questions about the conspiracy to blow up parliament

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Historical recipe Spiced Hot Chocolate

Engraving showing flying fish leaping over a Spanish trade ship

Winds of change: how the discovery of trade winds powered Europe’s empires

Dr Clare Jackson. (Photograph by Caroline Mardon)

Clare Jackson “England was seen as a pariah state, ruled by regicidal rebels who’d publicly executed their king”

A scene from the Salem witch trials, depicted in a 19th-century lithograph

When the devil stalked Salem: the story of the Salem witch trials

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Trick photograph. (Photo by LM Melander and Brothers) entitled 'The Haunted Lane,' depicts a pair of men terrified by a female ghost, mid-to-late 19th century. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

5 historic hauntings for Halloween

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Historical recipe Four Thieves Vinegar