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How William Caxton printed the first-ever book in English. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval videoGeoffrey Chaucer5 key things to know

The Wife of Bath: how Chaucer's character gives a voice to medieval women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

QuizHow much do you know about Shakespeare's life and work?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

What Norse poetry reveals about the Viking age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Murder and mayhem in Georgian Britain: the scandalous work of Johnson's General History. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Marriage, Middlemarch & male pseudonyms: George Eliot’s unconventional life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oscar Wilde on trial. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The book that transformed medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Charge of the Light BrigadeWho blundered in the Valley of Death?

Everything you wanted to know about the Romantics

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

Was Shakespeare a snob?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jane Austen’s England: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lewis Carroll: maker of wonderlands

The real Dracula? The bloodthirsty life of Vlad the Impaler

Did Charles Dickens invent Christmas as we know it today?

Books of the year 2022. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

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

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

Hilary Mantel on the secrets of successful historical fiction. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

JRR TolkienThe making of Middle Earth

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

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

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

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