Illustration of a Medieval Scribe

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Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet

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Jane Austen’s tips for “health and happiness”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'The Poor Actress's Christmas Dinner', a painting by pre-Raphaelite artist Robert Braithwaite Martineau, says much about the way Victorians had begun to understand the problem of loneliness. (Photo by Bridgeman Art Library)

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The invention of loneliness: why being 'unhappy alone' is a surprisingly modern idea. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photographs of Anne Frank and her father, Otto, with the typewriter

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Censoring Anne Frank: how her famous diary has been edited through history

A portrait of Thomas Cromwell

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The Mirror & The Light book review: Hilary Mantel's epic finale "lives up to the hype". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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London’s trailblazing women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'The Young Victoria' follows the early relationship of Victoria and her beloved Prince Albert. The monarch was played by Emily Blunt in the 2009 film. (Images by Bettmann/Getty Images/Alamy)

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Leading ladies in love: 6 historical movies to watch this Valentine’s Day. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charles Manson stares out from fabric on sale in San Francisco

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The afterlife of Charles Manson. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

During his time in Oxford, Wilde fully embraced ‘aesthetic flair’: growing his hair long; dressing in flamboyant fashions and assuming exaggerated affectations. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Victorian

7 facts you (probably) didn’t know about Oscar Wilde

Edvard Munch's painting 'Love and Pain'

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The Vampyre stirs: 200 years of vampire entertainment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American actresses Frances Dee, Jean Parker, Katharine Hepburn, and Joan Bennett playing the March girls in George Cukor's film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women', 1933. (Photo by RKO Pictures/Courtesy of Getty Images)

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“Fresh and full of soul”: the history of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A poster for Terence Fisher's 1958 horror 'Dracula'

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From Dracula to The Historian: 5 gothic novels that reflected the anxieties of their age. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How America captured Christmas. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British writer Roald Dahl

Second World War

Roald Dahl11 things you might not know about the children's author

General Modern

Julia Lovell’s Maoism: A Global History wins 2019 Cundill History Prize

The War of the Worlds. (Photo by BBC/© Mammoth Screen)

20th Century

Days of future past: how the new BBC TV series The War of the Worlds reinvented the sci-fi classic

Actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was personally invited by Oscar Wilde to play the title role in the upcoming London premiere of his play, 'Salomé'.

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6 of London theatre’s most notable historical scandals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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6 novels that captured life in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Monteagle letter, which shares a warning about the Gunpowder Plot. (National Archives)

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In their own words: 6 of history’s most fascinating letters

20th Century

The trial of Lady Chatterley’s Lover: how the 'obscene' book caused a moral storm

Giant of literature: A page from the 'Beowulf' manuscript. The story is fictional but some of the characters within it were real people, and others were believed to be the ancestors of Anglo-Saxon and Danish kings. (Photo by Alamy)

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Beowulf: The Anglo-Saxons' action hero

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5 reasons why the King James version of the Bible matters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Literary women through the ages: Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Brontë all enjoyed female friendships which enriched their writing, say Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney. (Getty Images)

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From Austen & Brontë to Woolf: literature’s forgotten female friendships. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Books interview with AC Grayling: “A great philosophical mind is one that belongs to a childish heart – always curious, always open”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The acclaimed English author Charles Dickens. (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

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7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Charles Dickens and his family home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting depicts a 14th-century sea battle

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Medieval inspiration: what the fantasy genre owes to the 14th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Spanish publisher works on cloning the illustrated codex hand-written manuscript Voynich. (Photo by CESAR MANSO/AFP/Getty Images)

Medieval

How the Voynich manuscript hit the headlines

In his native Como, Pliny the Younger's fame is reflected in his statue on the city cathedral's imposing west front, which was built in the 15th century. (Image by AKG Images)

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Portrait of theologian and Bible translator John Wycliffe (c1330–84). (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Medieval

The murderous history of Bible translations

British spy writer Ian Fleming at his home, Goldeneye, in Jamaica. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express Newspapers/Getty Images)

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The man behind James Bond. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'Soccer' and 'diaper' are among many 'American' words that are more faithful to the old English tongue than those used in Britain today, says James Evans. Other 'Americanisms' were used in Shakespeare's plays before the first English colony was established in Virginia. (L to R: Photos by Hulton Archive/Getty Images; DeAgostini/Getty Images; Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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From candy to diapers: the purity of American English. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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