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How Machiavellian was Machiavelli?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

William Shakespeare: a guide to the life of England's greatest playwright

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: your guide to the poet’s life, work and love

Virginia Woolf: a brief guide to the writer's life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George Edalji and the Great Wyrley killings: a real-life Sherlock Holmes mystery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: poet, activist, trailblazer, runaway. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval forgeries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Novelist Kate Mosse on The City of Tears. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

22 of the best historical fiction novels to help you escape to the past

The forged texts of the Middle Ages: why Europe's holy men turned to counterfeiting. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: the birth of a gothic monster

The evolution of the English language

Your guide to the Domesday Book: the most important document in English history?

Agatha Christie in profile: facts about her life

Bizarre books and macabre manuscripts. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Samuel Pepys

Charles Dickens: prison reformer, scourge of capitalists, champion of the poor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A WW2 story of survival. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jane Austen's fiction: an accurate portrayal of life in Georgian England?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The history of the Nobel Prizes

New take on Aztec history revealed as winner of the 2020 Cundill History Prize

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Bah Humbug’ and what does it mean?

Ethiopia 1935: The real history behind The Shadow King. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History heroSusie Dent chooses Francis Grose (1731–1791)

Robert Harris on V2, historical fiction and WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The mysterious disappearance of Agatha Christie

Women in Greek myths. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

James Bond in real life: where did Ian Fleming's inspirations come from?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Bernard Cornwell on The Last Kingdom’s finale and the next Sharpe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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