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Elizabeth I preferred thoughtful new year gifts suited to her own tastes such as cloth, personal jewellery and trinkets. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Sobriety, royal presents and Victorian-era musings on failure: an unexpected history of New Year

HistoryExtra podcast picks 2020

2020 round-up: we choose our top HistoryExtra podcasts of the year

Kerri Greenidge, Tom Holland, Suzannah Lipscomb and Michael Wood debate the historical context of 2020

2020: The historians’ verdict

BBC History Revealed Christmas 2020 issue, on sale 26 November

Christmas 2020 issue of BBC History Revealed out now!

Christmas 2020 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!

Lucy Worsley in Regency period costume

Lucy Worsley on royal history’s biggest fibs

The White Ship disaster

Charles Spencer on the White Ship disaster, “the most disastrous moment in British maritime history”

Neil Oliver. Television presenter and author Neil Oliver at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 2019 (Photo by Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images)

General ancient history

Ancient wisdom with Neil Oliver

An illustration of slaves picking cotton on a plantation. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

David Olusoga "Black history affects all of us – it is British history"

Afua Hirsh with her ‘Enslaved’ co-presenters Simcha Jacobovici and Samuel L Jackson

Afua Hirsch on tracing the story of the transatlantic slave trade

Elizabeth I knights Francis Drake on his ship Golden Hind after his round-the-world voyage. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How did Elizabeth I feel about being queen in a ‘man’s world’? | Tracy Borman explains

Simon Schama photographed in Hauteville House, Guernsey (Photo by Oxford Films, Photographer Eddie Knox)

Simon Schama on the Romantics

Afua Hirsch in Kenya. (Photo by Clear Story/BBC)

Afua Hirsch: “The prejudice still surrounding Africa is absolutely rooted in a racist past”

Half-sisters and daughters of Henry VIII: Mary Tudor (left) and Elizabeth I, who both reigned as queen of England. (Photos by Getty Images)

Did Elizabeth I and her half-sister, Mary Tudor, have a good relationship? Historian Tracy Borman explains

Black Lives Matter activists in Seattle, June 2020. “Accounts of the past have failed to properly address persecution,” says Peter Frankopan. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)

Interview: Peter Frankopan on the state of global history