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Rome’s lost legion

Belgium’s great divide

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The fine rolls of King Henry III. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Olympia 480 Bc. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The making of the King James Bible. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Civil rights and the Civil War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Two women from South America. Six centuries ago South American civilisations matched the west in some respects. (Getty Images)

The wonder of the west

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The site of the battle of Naseby, which saw parliament's New Model Army win its first major battle against the royalists in June 1645. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Wars of the Three Kingdoms part 1. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabethan adventurer, courtier, navigator and historian Sir Walter Ralegh – "a gorgeous, larger than life figure". Unfortunately, many of his peers weren't impressed by his good looks, and saw instead an arrogant man, blind to his own weaknesses. (Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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A woman puts a foundling, or her own unwanted child, into a revolving doorway in a hospital or orphanage wall, intended for unwanted children. (Getty Images)

A mother's love: tokens left with London's foundling babies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ironclad and the Siege of Rochester

Illustration of couple with bubonic plague

Where the Black Death happened: 9 places connected to the plague. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Should the public pick up the tab for the royal wedding?

Yemen’s forgotten war

Barbary pirates: kidnapped in Iceland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

At the edge of reason: shaving and razors in 18th-century Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Abba Kovner (1918–87). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jerusalem: blood and gold. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George III at the end of his reign. He "represented the uncontrollable aspects of humanity that the Enlightenment could not explain," says Stella Tillyard. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Uncertainty and unrest: the madness of the Regency period. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Darfur: The history behind the bloodshed

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Austerity measures will open the door to the black market

Ruby Sparks: the smash-and-grab gangster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Communist sport: Cold War copycats. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Robert Burns: the people’s poet. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Christopher Clayton Hutton (1893–1965). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John Leland: The man who saved medieval knowledge. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Toilers of the deep: the lives of Edwardian deep sea fishermen

The Abingdon Sword, an iron sword fragment and hilt found near Abingdon in Oxfordshire in 1874. The decoration on the sword hilt indicates this was a high status weapon dating from around AD 875. (Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Fighting the Vikings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.