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    Illustration from Dante's ‘Inferno', depicting thieves tormented in hell by serpents.
    General ancient history

    A brief history of the afterlife

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    Coffee, plague and the Great Fire: the pleasures and perils of living in Restoration London

    Medieval punishments
    Medieval

    How bloody was medieval life?

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    Anne Boleyn, who was executed by beheading on 19 May 1536 after being found guilty of high treason, was said to have had
    Tudor

    The final days of Anne Boleyn: why did she die?

    Clothes infected by the Black Death are burned in medieval Europe
    Medieval

    Black Death facts: your guide to “the worst catastrophe in recorded history”

    Engraving of the death of Cleopatra
    Ancient Egypt

    When did Queen Cleopatra die and who killed her?

    Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett
    20th Century

    Percy Fawcett and the search for the ‘Lost City Of Z’

    Prisoners at Bergen-Belsen
    Second World War

    A brief history of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne Frank died

    Engraving of emperor Commodus's death
    Roman

    Cheese, angry gods and shoddy surgeons: the unlikely deaths of Roman emperors

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    The effects of the disease known as the Black Death
    Medieval

    Black Death quarantine: how did we try to contain the most deadly disease in history?

    Outbreak of dance mania
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    The medieval dance of death

    A painting by Vincenzo Camuccini depicting the death of Julius Caesar in the Roman Senate. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)
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    The death of Caesar: do we know the whole story?

    Women 'take the air' in an attempt to ward off the Spanish Flu
    First World War

    “Far too little, too late”: what happened when Spanish Flu hit Britain a century ago?

    A copper engraving of Margaret Pole's execution
    General Early Modern

    Are these the worst botched executions in history?

    Charles Manson stares out from fabric on sale in San Francisco
    20th Century

    The afterlife of Charles Manson

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