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Clifford's Tower, York, North Yorkshire, 1997. Clifford's Tower is the keep of the former York castle. The present stone keep was built on the man-made earth motte in the early 14th century, and due to subsidence it cracked in two places. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Yorkshire’s top 10 historical sites as county prepares for Tour de France 2014

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Historian at the Movies: Belle reviewed . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The decline of the pub: what can we learn from history?

Destroyer escorts fire depth charges against submarine raiders in the Atlantic during the Second World War. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

What the modern navy did for us

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Ye olde travel guide: Goree, 1782 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist Cyril Lionel Robert James talking to a group of students at Speakers' Corner, London, in 1967. (Photo by Roy Milligan/Daily Express/Getty Images)

My history hero: CLR James (1901–89) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Incent's House as it stands today on the Berkhamsted High Street. (Creative Commons)

The hunt for the Tudor hitman

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A Nobel Prize, a 3,600-mile voyage and the battle of Marengo: 3 things that happened On This Day 14 June

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For sale: 7 amazing historical homes owned by Henry VIII, Charles II and Winnie the Pooh

A mosaic depicting the poet Virgil writing the Aeneid. (Photo By DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

How to succeed in Ancient Rome

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Neptune, Georgia and the battle of Toulouse: 3 things that happened On This Day 9 June