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    Hallie Rubenhold photographed in London.
    Victorian

    Hallie Rubenhold: “To most people, the women killed by the Ripper are just corpses. I want to tell a different story”

    Richard III, anonymous painting around 1500. (Photo by Alamy)
    Plantagenet

    The house of York

    Margaret Thatcher surrounded by British soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment, during a surprise visit to the Falkland Islands, January 1983. Britain has
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    How the Falklands War fired up Britain

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    Henry Hemming.
    Second World War

    Fake news in World War Two

    Daisy Dunn.
    Roman

    The destruction of Pompeii

    Max Hastings by Fran Monks
    Second World War

    Max Hastings on the Dambusters

    The wrecked remains of an Allied glider that participated in Market Garden
    Second World War

    Why Operation Market Garden, the Allies’ battle for Arnhem, was a disaster in the planning

    Suzie Lipscomb by Steve Sayers.
    Tudor

    Suzannah Lipscomb on women’s lives in Reformation France

    Tom Holland by Helen Atkinson
    General Modern

    Tom Holland on Christianity’s enduring legacy

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    Dan Jones by Steve Sayers and Helen Castor
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    The Crusades, with Dan Jones

    Crusaders defeat the Turks at Dorylaeum in 1097, as shown in a 14th-century illumination
    Medieval

    Crusaders: did they fight for God or gold?

    Poles watch the first of the German invasion planes over Warsaw, 1939. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
    Second World War

    Poland, 1939: World War Two begins

    Babita Sharma
    General Modern

    The corner shop revolution

    Winchester Cathedral
    Medieval

    From King Alfred to Jane Austen: a historical tour of Winchester

    Clash between the English Temeraire and the French Redoutable ships during the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
    Georgian

    The battle of Trafalgar

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