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Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian, by Jacob Marrel, 1679 (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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Maria Sibylla Merian: the artist who challenged the natural world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark and the first Viking king of England (Photo by Getty)

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How Sweyn Forkbeard became the first Viking king of England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ras Prince Monolulu entertains the crowds at Aintree racecourse, 1931 (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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Ras Prince Monolulu: the horse-race tipster who transformed himself into an Abyssinian prince. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Escaping slavery in the American South. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton, next to a Regency portrait of Kitty Kirkpatrick.

Georgian

Inspiring Bridgerton: the real South Asian women in Regency-era England

A portrait of Elizabeth Stuart, painted during the reign of Charles I

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Elizabeth Stuart: the treasonous portrait that touted Charles I's sister for the throne. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton

20th Century

Ernest Shackleton, the great Antarctic explorer of the Heroic Age

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History's greatest mysteriesWhy did Mao’s chosen successor flee China?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin. (Getty Images)

First World War

Did a British agent murder Rasputin?

HistoryExtra Masterclass: Tudor Royal Women with Tracy Borman

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Tudor Royal Women with Tracy BormanWomen at Court. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Josephine Baker lounges on a tiger skin around the time she starred in La Revue Nègre

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Singer, siren, activist, spy: the incredible life of Josephine Baker. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A follower is reflected on a framed photograph of Bhimrao Ambedkar

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Bhim Rao Ambedkar: India’s 'untouchable' hero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

William Hogarth, seen in a self-portrait with his pug

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William HogarthThe satirical artist inspired by the teachings of the Bible. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pragmatist or heartless? A portrait of the young Elizabeth Woodville (1437-1492). The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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The power behind the throne: women in the Wars of the Roses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Depiction of a musician and dancing fool in Paris, 14th century

Medieval

What was life like for a court jester?

Depiction of the battle of Stamford Bridge. Harald Hardrada, king of Norway, seen here wielding a battleaxe, was slain at the battle

Viking

Harald Hardrada: why there's more to the last great Viking than his death in 1066

Colourful illustration of 12 historical figures's heads (Winston Churchill, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Thomas Cromwell, Richard III, Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, Anne Boleyn, William Marshal, Jane Austen, Hatshepsut, Gandhi and Catherine the Great) shown in a grid pattern.

General Modern

Top historical figures: 100+ of the most famous people through history – in chronological order

Illustration of Hereward the Wake, the rebel who rose against William the Conqueror

Norman

Hereward the Wake: the Anglo-Saxon rebel who became William the Conqueror's nemesis

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Johnny Hopper: a nerveless Nazi-killer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A black and white photo of several 'matchwomen', who went on strike at the Bryant and May's factory in London in 1888.

Victorian

The 1888 Matchgirls strike: how a group of East End women changed British labour history

Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia

20th Century

Haile Selassie, last emperor of Ethiopia and architect of modern Africa

An illustration from The Travels of Marco Polo, showing a teenage Marco on the deck of a ship sailing away from Venice

Medieval

Why are Marco Polo's travels so famous?

A montage of Romans (Photos courtesy of Getty and Alamy)

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How ethnically diverse was Roman Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ada Lovelace

General Modern

Ada Lovelace: a visionary of computing

A reconstruction of a Viking church

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Vikings in America: the Europeans who arrived 500 years before Columbus. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of a man without a head, but with his face on his chest. This is one of many creatures Sir John Mandeville claimed to have met on his travels

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A knight's (tall) tale: why medieval traveller Sir John Mandeville was more popular than Marco Polo. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tony Robinson as Private Baldrick and Rowan Atkinson as Captain Blackadder

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Q&AWas there a real Blackadder?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of the man in the iron mask standing by the window of his cell and guarded by two musketeers

Victorian

Unmasking the 'man in the iron mask': do we know the identity of the famous prisoner?

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John of Gaunt: prince without a throne. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John of Gaunt shown in a c16th-century portrait

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John of Gaunt: The man who would be king. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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