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Anna Whitelock is a historian, author and broadcaster. She is professor of the history of monarchy at City, University of London and director of the Centre for the Study of Modern Monarchy. Anna is an international media commentator on monarchy, public history and heritage, and the Tudors and Stuarts

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Queen Elizabeth I in procession with her courtiers, c1600-1603 (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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Elizabeth I’s accession day celebrations . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II sends her first Tweet during a visit to the 'Information Age' Exhibition at the Science Museum on October 24, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
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How did the world change during Queen Elizabeth II’s reign?

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Anna Whitelock looks back on some key moments that made the historical headlines in 2021
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The state of history in 2021 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Anna Whitelock's Talking Points Friends or enemies? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Anna Whitelock's Talking Points A history of violence . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Anna Whitelock's Talking Points Foundational stories . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Anna Whitelock's Talking Points Plot twists . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Mary I of England, 1554. Found in the collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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Mary I: the forgotten trailblazer

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St Catharine's College, Cambridge has already removed a bell from view after concluding it came from a slave plantation. (Image by Alamy)
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Anna Whitelock Confronting slavery’s legacy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A 19th-century portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)
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Elizabeth I’s love life: was she really a ‘Virgin Queen’?

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Deadly rivals: Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots

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From left: Fern Riddell, a cultural historian specialising in sex and suffrage; Janina Ramirez, a broadcaster and historian based at the University of Oxford; Joann Fletcher, a broadcaster and writer, and an Egyptologist at the University of York; Anna Whitelock, a historian of royal and early modern history, based at Royal Holloway, University of London. (Photography by Helen Atkinson)
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What is it like to be a female historian in the 21st century? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Women in popular history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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“Studying history is the ultimate passport to the future”

Portrait of Mary I of England, from the collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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Mary I: a highly impressive queen cut off in her prime