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The time travelling Tudor: Anne Boleyn’s most surprising representations in film, TV and literature

President Nixon making final TV address

The 5 most notorious presidents in US history

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Henry VIII’s mistresses: who else did the Tudor king sleep with?

The Oseberg ship from around AD 820 is one of the most well- preserved Viking ships ever excavated (Photo by Noe Falk Nielsen/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Viking ships: 5 lesser-known facts

Battle of Bosworth, 22 August 1485

10 things you need to know about the battle of Bosworth

Colourised print of the Lighthouse of Alexandria as imagined in the 18th century

General ancient history

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: what were they, and what happened to them?

A thin section of the Great Wall of China near Beijing

General ancient history

10 facts about the Great Wall of China

A portrait of Elizabeth I, c1565

The 10 best English queens in history

The Kray brothers

The A-Z of British gangs and gangsters

A miniature from the Codex Justinianus

Plague, famine and sudden death: 10 dangers of the medieval period

Thomas Becket murder

7 controversial saints in history

Pompeii,Italy

What was life like in ancient Pompeii? Mary Beard shares an A-Z guide

Men operate a cotton gin in Dahomey, Mississippi, in 1898

7 key questions about the transatlantic slave trade – answered

Charles Cundall’s painting ‘The Withdrawal From Dunkirk, June 1940’

Second World War

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Dunkirk

A French 15th-century covered market

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Middle Ages