Castles and palaces

Chatsworth House, where Elizabeth I ordered for Mary, Queen of Scots to be imprisoned after she abdicated and fled from Scotland to England in 1567. (Photo by Chatsworth House Trust)

Britain’s 7 most amazing stately homes

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Royal palaces of the Hundred Years’ War

Dover Castle, Kent. (Photo by Olaf Protze/LightRocket via Getty Images)

England’s 8 most amazing castles

Marco Ricci, A View of the Cascade, Bushy Park Water Gardens, c.1715.

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Single use only in relation to the exhibition 'Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden' at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Photographs must not be archived or sold on.

In pictures: The Art of the Garden

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Hampton Court Palace’s Georgian Kitchen Garden: in pictures

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10 things you might not know about Blenheim Palace – the ‘real Downton Abbey’

Clifford's Tower, York, North Yorkshire, 1997. Clifford's Tower is the keep of the former York castle. The present stone keep was built on the man-made earth motte in the early 14th century, and due to subsidence it cracked in two places. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Yorkshire’s top 10 historical sites as county prepares for Tour de France 2014

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Georgian chocolate-making kitchen uncovered at Hampton Court Palace

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18th-century snapshots of Windsor Castle

Aerial view of the Roman fort of Vercovicium

10 places where history was made

From The Library

A view of Lindisfarne Castle, where a former priory became a naval depot. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Tudor navy

From The Library

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Ironclad in Rochester

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From disaster at Upnor to triumph at Quiberon Bay