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Five things to look out for when visiting a castle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elsie Wright, who with her cousin Frances Griffiths took photos of sprites, gnomes and fairies, 1917 (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

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Fake news: 8 of the most notorious photograph hoaxes, from fairies to UFOs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prince Charles, aged 4, driving a toy car in the grounds of Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

21st CenturyvideoKing Charles IIIA life in pictures

What makes a good coronation? Tracy Borman answers

General HistoryvideoWhat makes a good coronation?

Which British monarch had the most successful coronation?

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Which British monarch had the most successful coronation?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kathrine SwitzerThe shocking image from Boston Marathon in 1967. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

James Gillray's A Voluptuary Under the Horrors of Digestion

GeorgianvideoHow did caricaturist James Gillray satirically take down the Prince Regent?

A man in Victorian dress holding a cane jumps on a beach

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Can you guess the meaning of Victorian slang?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bronze Boudica statue against summer sky in London

RomanvideoWhat did Boudica’s Iceni warriors look like?

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Did the Duke of Wellington really call his troops the “scum of the Earth”?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd, Wales. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Tales of romanceThe historical love stories behind 5 British castles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cave painting showing animals being hunted.

General prehistoryvideoVideo5 key things to know about prehistoric cave art

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The death of Queen Victoria. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth I knights Francis Drake on his ship Golden Hind after his round-the-world voyage. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

ElizabethanvideoHow did Elizabeth I feel about being queen in a 'man's world'? | Tracy Borman explains

Half-sisters and daughters of Henry VIII: Mary Tudor (left) and Elizabeth I, who both reigned as queen of England. (Photos by Getty Images)

ElizabethanvideoDid Elizabeth I and her half-sister, Mary Tudor, have a good relationship? Historian Tracy Borman explains

Winston Churchill gives his famous v-sign. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World WarvideoFrom Winston Churchill to the Bengal famine: are we in denial about our role in WW2?

Anne Boleyn (left) and her daughter, Elizabeth I. (Photos by Getty Images)

TudorvideoWhat did Elizabeth I think of her mother, Anne Boleyn? Historian Tracy Borman explains

A scene from 'They Shall Not Grow Old', showing how film director Peter Jackson digitally remastered footage of the First World War. (Photo courtesy of THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD/ WingNut Films/ Peter Jackson. Original black and white film © IWM)

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"There was no feeling sorry for themselves": director Peter Jackson on the soldiers of the First World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

MedievalvideoAn introduction to the Black Death

20th Centuryvideo3 of the most famous royal weddings in history

MedievalvideoWatch: David Starkey on Magna Carta

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