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A portrait of Edward IV, the first Yorkist king of England. From the National Portrait Gallery. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Edward IV: champion of the Wars of the Roses

Illustration by Owen Davey

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A brief history of human filth: how did people try to keep clean in the past?

c1960s photo showing a man places an engagement ring on a woman's finger.

A brief history of proposing marriage

Once he gained control of the entire Roman Empire, Constantine set about an ambitious programme of reform. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Constantine the Great: the emperor who created Europe

Depiction of the five senses (sight, sound, taste, smell and touch) by a late 18th/early 19th unknown artist. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

5 smells that made Georgian England

The story of Martin Luther King’s struggle for civil rights in America

Though the Jacobites broke the British line at Culloden, they faltered under heavy fire (Photo by Alamy)

The Jacobite rebellions: how close were they to returning the Stuarts to power?

Nancy Astor on the campaign trail in 1919

Nancy Astor facts: who was the first female MP in British history to take her seat in parliament?

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Hidden Figures: the incredible real history behind the film

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A medieval monk praying in front of a table of apothacary's herbs

Beating the Black Death: did medieval medicine help people to survive? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Millennium Centre, Cardiff. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Simon Jenkins: “Wales needs to get over England and be Wales again”

Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump

From Lincoln to Trump: a brief history of the US Republican Party

Cat burglars scaled walls and climbed through lofty windows. (Illustration by Rachel Dickens for BBC History Magazine)

The rise of the cat burglar

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Andrew Ziminski pictured at his workshop in Somerset.

Andrew Ziminski "The stonework at Stonehenge is a Gordian knot of mind-bogglingness" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sylvia Pankhurst is taken into custody

History hero Emma Barnett chooses Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960)