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Christopher Clark at St Catharine's College, Cambridge (Photo by Damien McFadden)

Christopher Clark “The 1848 revolutions were a dissonant orchestra of ambitions and intentions”

Dr Clare Jackson (Photo by Caroline Mardon)

Clare Jackson on the Restoration “Radical ideas that had been preached and published could not be unthought”

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General History

Video podcast Peter Frankopan on humanity’s long relationship with nature . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video Tracy Borman on Elizabeth I . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tiya Miles

“Superbly written” story of women’s experiences of slavery wins the 2022 Cundill History Prize

Hilary Mantel, pictured in Oxford in 2017

Hilary Mantel remembered “She changed the way we think about history”

Hakim Adi

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Hakim Adi “There’s still this hangover that everything has to be seen through the prism of enslavement”

Crowds line the streets to watch the funeral cortege of Queen Victoria in February 1901. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Tracy Borman A guide to royal funerals through history

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Dan Jones on writing historical fiction . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lucy Worsley. (Photography by Frank Monks)

Lucy Worsley “Agatha Christie’s mysterious disappearance in 1926 was the central injustice of her life”

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris who is medical historian and has written a new book called ‘the Facemaker’ about WW1 facial reconstruction

First World War

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris “This was a time when losing a limb made you a hero, but losing a face made you a monster”

Estelle Paranque

Estelle Paranque “Elizabeth I was in charge of her fate. Perhaps that’s why Catherine de Medici despised her”

Our illustration imagines the Suffolk woman Olivia Cranmer, who carved out a successful career managing the family plot of land in the wake of the Black Death. (Illustration by Sarah Young)

General History

Lucy Worsley on three extraordinary lives The survivor, the 'incurable' and the scapegoat