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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

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.

The Civil War: everything you wanted to know

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

Robert Burton, a 17th-century scholar

Can the work of a 17th-century scholar help us understand mental illness?

What was a drunkard's cloak used for? This illustration shows a man wearing the archaic punishment tool designed to punish habitual drinkers. (Photo by Getty Images)

Q&A What was a drunkard’s cloak used for?

Linda Porter. (Photography by Nick Dawe)

Books interview: Linda Porter on the women in Charles II’s life

Queen Victoria on an ivory throne

Top 11 monarchs in British history

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Great Fire of London quiz – how much do you know?

The entry of Prince Charles Edward, 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', into Edinburgh in Scotland in 1745. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Forty-five rebellion: why did it fail?

Linda Porter.

The mistresses of Charles II