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Anne Boleyn (left) and her daughter, Elizabeth I. (Photos by Getty Images)

What did Elizabeth I think of her mother, Anne Boleyn? Historian Tracy Borman explains

Winston Churchill gives his famous v-sign. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

From Winston Churchill to the Bengal famine: are we in denial about our role in WW2?

Historians Joanne Paul, Olivette Otele and June Purvis dissect the results of our recent poll: 100 women who changed the world.

100 women who changed the world

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An introduction to the Black Death

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Ronald Hutton Oliver Cromwell: Saint or Serpent?

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General ancient history

Niall Ferguson The politics of catastrophe

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Elinor Cleghorn The History of Unwell Women

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Samir Puri How Empires Shaped the World

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Fern Riddell Sex: Lessons from History

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Michael Lewis and David Musgrove What's missing from the Bayeux Tapestry?

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Cat Jarman History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

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Helen Carr The Red Prince: John of Gaunt, the Father of Monarchy

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Second World War

Kate Vigurs The women of SOE in WW2 France

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Nathen Amin Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders

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Max Adams The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur

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General ancient history

Michael Wood The story of China

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Toby Wilkinson The rediscovery of Ancient Egypt

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Second World War

Laurence Rees Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

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Margaret MacMillan Why are there wars?

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Charles Spencer The White Ship

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Tom Licence Edward the Confessor and 1066

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Keith Lowe The trouble with historical monuments

Medieval Life and Death

Catch up on our series of lectures on life and death in the Middle Ages, first delivered by expert historians in 2020

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Hannah Skoda Violence in the Middle Ages

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Chris Woolgar Medieval food

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Elma Brenner Medieval disease and medicine

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Sally Dixon-Smith Medieval love and marriage

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A scene from 'They Shall Not Grow Old', showing how film director Peter Jackson digitally remastered footage of the First World War. (Photo courtesy of THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD/ WingNut Films/ Peter Jackson. Original black and white film © IWM)

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“There was no feeling sorry for themselves”: director Peter Jackson on the soldiers of the First World War

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What’s it like to be a female historian in the 21st century?

The Great Fire - Presenters Rob Bell, Dr Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones.

Video: Historian Dan Jones on the Great Fire of London 1666

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3 of the most famous royal weddings in history