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My favourite historical places: Professor Richard Alston

A policeman feels the full force of a blast in this illustration – from the 7 June 1884 issue of 'The Illustrated Police News' – depicting a Fenian attack on Scotland Yard. The Fenians' dynamite campaign of the early 1880s provoked a radical response from the British government. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Victorian war on terror. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The other Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite historical places: Professor Peter Barry

The coffin containing the remains of Richard III. The skeleton of the king was discovered in 2012 in the foundations of Greyfriars Church, Leicester, 500 years after he was killed during the battle of Bosworth. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

The discovery of Richard III's remains

1914: Why Britain had to go to war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Robert Baden Powell (1857–1941). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Caracas 1783. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American poet Ezra Pound, a major figure of the early modernist movement. (Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images)

The march of the Green Shirts. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Beaumaris Gaol, Anglesey, Wales. The prison could accommodate up to 30 inmates under the so-called 'silent system', in which inmates slept in separate cells at night but worked and attended chapels and classes together during the day. (Ashley Cooper via Getty Images)

History Explorer: 19th-century prison reform. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Top 5 Jane Austen recipes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My favourite historical places: Professor Peter Gaunt

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My favourite historical places: Professor Laura Gowing

Should we rewrite Jane Austen’s classic novels?

My favourite historical places: Professor Robert Bickers

Who's the best-dressed Briton in history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Diary of the judge who hated Hitler to be published for first time

Books interview: Herodotus's 'The Histories'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

"People in the Middle Ages coped better with death than we do"

History Explorer: Neolithic treatment of the dead. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My History Hero: Franklin D Roosevelt (1882- 1945). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The June 1933 cover of the Radio Times. (Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Changing times: 90 years of the Radio Times

The princes in the Tower: why was their fate never explained?

Ye olde travel guide: Heidelberg 1618. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gertrude Bell: adventurer, diplomat, mountaineer and anti-suffragette. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

First World War

Telling jokes in the trenches: First World War newspaper The Wipers Times celebrated in new BBC drama

Merchants and lower-ranking gentlemen often put pen to paper themselves, but wealthy men and gentlewomen were more likely to employ a scribe. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How to send a letter in medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Flodden 1513: the biggest ever Anglo-Scottish battle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, displayed remarkable leadership of the British army at the battle of Waterloo. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Waterloo: the historians' verdict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.