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A big day in history: the debate on whether Britain should join the European Community

My history hero: Samuel Johnson (1709-84). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryThe Elizabethan big society

Ye olde travel guide: Acre AD 1272. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&A: Why didn’t Britain attempt to hinder Italy’s 1935 invasion of Abyssinia by preventing the Italian fleet from using the Suez Canal?

The ruined site of Clonmacnoise in County Offaly, Ireland. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Wars of the Three Kingdoms part 2

Rome’s lost legion

Belgium’s great divide

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True or false? The answers

The fine rolls of King Henry III

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

Civil rights and the Civil War

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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True or false?

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)

The LibraryWalter Ralegh: the heroic traitor

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

Ironclad and the Siege of Rochester

Illustration of couple with bubonic plague

Where the Black Death happened: 9 places connected to the plague

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

Yemen’s forgotten war

Barbary pirates: kidnapped in Iceland

At the edge of reason: shaving and razors in 18th-century Britain

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

Jerusalem: blood and gold

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.