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20th Century

Spiritualism, fairies, and Arthur Conan-Doyle . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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General History

Sci-fi history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Medieval

Chaucer’s disputed legacy: new discoveries . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Ian McEwan WL
21st Century

Ian McEwan on writing historical novels . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British writer Hilary Mantel photographed at home
Tudor

Hilary Mantel on the secrets of successful historical fiction

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Pod Andrea Wulf WL
Victorian

Dangerous ideas & scandalous lives: Germany’s first Romantics . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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20th Century

Author, adventurer, archaeologist: Agatha Christie’s action-packed life . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Writer JRR Tolkien smokes a pipe
20th Century

JRR Tolkien The making of Middle Earth

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What to read next The latest history books reviewed

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Pod Catriona Pennell WL
First World War

First World War poets: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Sarah Churchwell WL
20th Century

Gone with the Wind: how a 1936 novel explains modern America . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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20th Century

Stalin’s library: inside the mind of a dictator . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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General History

Powerful pages: the beguiling history of books . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Maria Spilsbury painting of a group sat at a drawing room table
Georgian

Regency romance and a real-life Anne Elliot

Nisha Katona and Samuel Pepys
Stuart

History hero Nisha Katona chooses Samuel Pepys (1633–1703)