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Project uses ‘crowd-sourcing’ to decipher early handwriting

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Christianity under Roman rule: a new church is born

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The Library Where history happened: a history of disability . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Antique double-hemisphere map of the world, complete with landscapes and mythological scenes. (GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)
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5 big questions in global history

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Ye olde travel guide: Dublin AD 1000 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A runestone depicting two warriors fighting and the journey of the Vikings to Valhalla, the hall of slain. (DEA/G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)
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The Vikings at home . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An illustration titled ‘The petition for abolishing the slave trade’, from Amelia Opie’s ’The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar’, London, 1826. “Come, listen to my plaintive ditty,/Ye tender hearts, and children dear!/And, should it move your souls to pity,/Oh! try to end the griefs you hear.” (Photo by Photo 12/UIG via Getty Images)
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9 key places connected to the abolition of the British slave trade . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Detail of a column showing Norman soldiers, c12th century. (CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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In search of the Normans: who were they?

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A Victorian drawing room with pictures in heavy frames and ornately covered furniture, c1860. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Where history happened: Victorian collectors . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Library Medieval tourism: pilgrimages and tourist destinations

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A contemporary view of the river Seine and Notre-Dame de Paris. (Getty Images)
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Ye Olde Travel Guide: Paris 1802 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Norman Conquest . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England

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When did the practice of funeral rings begin/end and how widespread was it?

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A big day in history: Gilbert and Sullivan unveil ‘The Mikado’