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The ruins of the Temple of Apollo, Delphi, Greece. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Delphi, Greece

Danish astronomer Ole Romer (1644–1710). (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

10 astronomers you’ve (probably) never heard of

An illustration of a Tudor street

“Mooke, fylthe and other vyle things”: Tudor dirt and dung

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Dwayne Johnson plays Hercules in HERCULES, from Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures.
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Historian at the Movies review: Hercules . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A still from the set of 'Westward the Women', directed by William A Wellman. (Photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

How the Wild West was spun

First World War: A German cavalry patrol in the battle of Tannenberg, where the Russian Narew-Army was encircled and beaten by the German troops led by Hindenburg and Ludendorff. (Film still!), 26.08.191 Date: 1914

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10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the bloody eastern front in 1914

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The Mill: behind the scenes of the new series

A letter-writer depicted by Janez Subic, c1878. (© Getty)

The great Victorian letter swindle

A portrait of Richard III.

Inside the mind of Richard III

Crowds in Coronation Park, Delhi, celebrate the coronation of King George V in 1911. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Library Did Britain make the modern world?

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Nelson Mandela and wife Winnie Mandela upon his release from prison. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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William Kent, a Yorkshire-born artist and architect

History explorer: The English landscape garden . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An oil painting by John Cleveley The Elder depicting the Royal Naval Dockyard

The quest for longitude: the men who mapped the surface of the earth

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7 Victorian jokes have been given a modern twist – and they’re hilarious

Mont Saint Michel (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Mont Saint Michel, France