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Cathedrals: from bishops’ seats to tourist hotspots . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Britain’s lost towns and villages . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Royal residences: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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General History

Where is Bridgerton filmed? 5 places to visit for fans of the popular Netflix period drama

Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland. (Loop Images/UIG via Getty Images)

Hadrian’s Wall: when and why was it built? A brief guide

King George III

The illness and decline of King George III

People visit the prehistoric monument Stonehenge in January 2022

Stonehenge: a historian’s guide to visiting the stones

GJ1HTR A standing stone at Borvemore, with a view to beaches beyond, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

General prehistory

Explore 8 little-known prehistoric sites in Britain

Stonehenge: Not a henge, but certainly a stone circle, and a very long-lived centre of human activity. (Getty Images)

Your guide to Britain’s prehistoric stone circles

A panorama of the man-made Neolithic structure Silbury Hill in Wiltshire

Explore Silbury Hill & Avebury, the site of Neolithic Britons

An archetypal country house in its grounds, in the mist

From Roman villas to Downton Abbey: Britain’s country houses

Ornate water gardens of the ancient fortress of Sigiriya in Sri Lanka

General ancient history

From Nan Madol to Karakorum: 7 cities that history forgot

Fatima Manji talks about objects and landmarks that are often obscured by the traditional stories told in many heritage sites. (Photographed by Sophie Davidson)

The history hidden in British heritage sites

Portrait of Sarah Gristwood for BBC History Magazine

History explorer: Tewkesbury Abbey and four more places linked to the Wars of the Roses

An early Christian standing stone situated in an open field at Gelligaer Common near Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the villages that disappeared