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    Men enjoying a drink and a chat in a coffee house, 1674. Coffee houses became known as ‘schools of the wise’, where people would gossip, argue and discuss the breaking news of the day. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    A drink for the devil: 8 facts about the history of coffee

    Catholics massacre Protestants in Ulster in a contemporary illustration. However, Catholics were also the victims of mass killings in 1641. (© Getty)
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    10 great misconceptions of the Civil War

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    Painting depicting Cromwell at the head of his troops following the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, by Ernest Crofts. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images)
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    The Library | Oliver Cromwell: the secret of his military genius

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    10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Great Fire of London

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    Female spies of the Civil War era

    A view of the Reculver Towers, Reculver, England. (Photo by Loop Images/UIG via Getty Images)
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    8 of Britain’s most mysterious ruins

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    Historical fact and fiction

    Queen Victoria with Prince Albert and their children in 1846. After a painting by F Winterhalter. Victoria’s husband Albert “carved out for the crown a moral kind of authority as the nation’s first and model family,” says Sarah Gristwood. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)
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    Retaining the royals: why has the British monarchy survived – and thrived?

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    A chocolate house in Georgian times. Coffee and chocolate houses were popular, and served as clubs and meeting places for business (© TopFoto)
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    Hangover cure, medicinal wonder-drink and Valentine’s Day gift: the history of our obsession with chocolate

    The battle of Marston Moor, the largest clash of the Civil War, depicted in a 19th-century painting. Preventing a slide into chaos required "diplomatic panache, not Charles's fabled stubbornness", writes Jonathan Healey. (Photo by A 16th-century portrait of Bess of Hardwick. Bess's talent, ambition and eye for a well-connected husband elevated her to dizzying levels of wealth and power in Tudor England. (Photo by Bridgeman Art Library)
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    The Library | What sparked the Civil War?

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    The ruins of Dunluce Castle, which sit on the coastal cliffs of North Antrim in Northern Ireland. They are thought to have been the inspiration for CS Lewis’s castle Cair Paravel in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ (1950–56). (Photo by Andrea Ricordi/Contributor/Getty Images)
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    9 of Britain’s best castles

    A woodcut print depicting the stocks, a form of Elizabethan punishment. Dated 16th century. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
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    “Damn your blood”: Swearing in early modern English

    Chastity belt decorated with a flower design and a heart pierced with arrows. (SSPL/Getty Images)
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    13 weird historical facts

    King William II is often overshadowed by his Norman father, William the Conqueror. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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    7 forgotten monarchs

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