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Toys and games that killed in Tudor England

A 1864 campaign banner. (David J & Janice Frent/Corbis via Getty Images)

US presidents: Race, religion and re-election?

A Mayan funeral mask, made from jadeite and shell

The Maya and the apocalypse

The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries by Jacques-Louis David

Napoleon’s great cultural charade

'Resurrectionists', or grave robbers, stealing a corpse from a cemetery to be sold for anatomical study and dissection, c1840. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Victorian trade in dead bodies

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Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Philadelphia 1774 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A view of Lindisfarne Castle, where a former priory became a naval depot. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Tudor navy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Robert Louis Stevenson, the 19th-century English poet and novelist perhaps best known for his books 'Treasure Island' and the 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

My history hero: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Uganda railway, which links Uganda and Kenya with the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa in Kenya, was built during the period of British control of East Africa. (SSPL/Getty Images)

The dark side of abolitionism

Our Lady of Sorrows, by unknown artist (20th century), photographic reproduction, 103x65 cm, inv 1602. Copyright Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosian. (Getty Images)

The day a Mexican farmer had a vision of the Virgin Mary

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Illustration by Jonty Clark.

The Library Ye olde travel guide: Hong Kong 1842 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Rosa Parks Riding the Bus

My history hero: Rosa Parks (1913-2005) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A big day in history: The day Pope Urban II exhorted Christians to go on crusade

Nelson mortally wounded at Trafalgar in 1805

Nelson: the unhappy admiral

Alfred the Great and Æthelflæd, 13th century

The Anglo-Saxon cunning woman