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Where history happened

Duncan Grant's studio at Charleston. Despite its lack of creature comforts, the East Sussex farmhouse became the weekend hub of the Bloomsbury set. (Photo by Charleston House/Tony Tree)
20th Century

History Explorer The story of the Bloomsbury set

Mass meeting of Chartists on Kennington Common, London, 10 April 1848
Victorian

9 places connected to the Chartism movement

Wat Pra Singh is among the most visited temples in Chiang Mai, Thailand. (Photo by Getty Images)
General ancient history

My favourite place: Chiang Mai, Thailand

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Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, England. (Photo by Getty Images)
Elizabethan

The house that Bess built: the secrets of Hardwick Hall

A battle of Flodden memorial statue of one of the Hawick Callants on horseback, raising the captured banner aloft in triumph. Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. (Getty Images)
Tudor

History explorer: the battle of Flodden

An elevated view of Cairo's Old City, which is home to a Roman tower, a Greek Orthodox church and an array of historical mosques and madrasas. (Photo by Getty Images)
Ancient Egypt

Battleground of empires: Cairo in 5 cultures

An engraving from 'The Illustrated Police News', c1889, imagines Jack the Ripper
Victorian

Your guide to Jack the Ripper

Warwick Castle. (Photo by Olaf Protze/LightRocket via Getty Images)
General prehistory

12 historical places to visit on the August bank holiday weekend

A view of the Reculver Towers, Reculver, England. (Photo by Loop Images/UIG via Getty Images)
Medieval

8 of Britain’s most mysterious ruins

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Sunset over the causeway to St Michael's Mount, Marazion, Cornwall, England (Getty Images)
Tudor

9 places associated with the Prayer Book Rebellion

A 19th-century cricket match at the Kennington Oval. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Victorian

10 things you didn’t know about London’s sporting history

The city of Bern, Switzerland.
General Modern

My favourite place: Bern, Switzerland

Sunlight dapples a clearing in Sherwood Forest, which was an essential resource for peasants centuries before it became a tourist attraction (Photo by Alamy)
Early medieval

Where history happened Ancient forests

The city of Bern, Switzerland.
General Modern

My favourite place: Bern, Switzerland

The beach at Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast of Devon and Dorset, has attracted fossil hunters for centuries. (Getty Images)
Georgian

Where history happened: Georgian fossil hunting

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