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Gothic wonder: 5 spectacular buildings of medieval England

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Thomas Cromwell’s life before Henry VIII

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History explorer: Life in the Victorian workhouse . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Selfridges: 7 things you (probably) didn’t know about the department store

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Love and marriage in Tudor England

From loincloths to corsets: a brief history of underwear with Horrible Histories’ Greg Jenner

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Christianity’s rocky relationship with sex

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Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: Suzannah Lipscomb dispels myths about the lovers who changed history

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Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth: a ‘staggeringly authentic’ WW1 film says daughter Baroness Shirley Williams . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Living through the Crusades: 3 poems and songs that reveal how medieval people felt about the holy war

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In pictures: early Victorian photography

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Waking up with Plato: the history of our morning routine

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My favourite place: Sean McGlynn

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Anita Anand on Sophia Duleep Singh: goddaughter of Queen Victoria and prominent campaigner for women’s rights . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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‘Bite-sized’ history textbooks accused of ‘dumbing down’ the subject: should we be worried?