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Owen Emmerson, who recently appeared on BBC docu-drama The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family, traces the clan’s meteoric rise – and crushing fall. (Image by BBC)

Behind the scenes of The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A panel of experts tackle the big questions surrounding period drama in the 21st century and ask: what’s next? (Images by Getty, Channel 5 and Alamy)

What’s next for period drama? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Christian Cooijmans explains what we know about Viking raids on Francia and Europe’s western seaboard. (Image by Getty Images)

Vikings and Franks . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Annie Garthwaite discusses her new novel based on the life of Cecily Neville, who worked tirelessly to help her family seize the throne. (Image by Getty Images)

The forgotten matriarch of the Wars of the Roses . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Andrew Lownie discusses the opulent and eccentric lifestyle of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson after the abdication crisis of 1936. (Image by Getty Images)

The Windsors in exile . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Hester Barron and Claire Langhamer reveal what we can learn from essays written by Bolton schoolgirls in 1937. (Image by Getty Images)

Working-class girlhood in 1930s Bolton . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Eric Berkowitz describes the lengths to which rulers – from the first Chinese emperor to Henry VIII – have gone to suppress freedom of speech. (Image by Getty Images)

Censorship: waging war on free speech . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fatima Manji talks about objects and landmarks that are often obscured by the traditional stories told in many heritage sites. (Photographed by Sophie Davidson)

The history hidden in British heritage sites . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Paul Kenyon charts the turbulent story of modern Romania, and its colourful, chaotic and often corrupt leaders. (Image by Getty Images)

Monarchs, fascists & communists: Romania’s modern history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Will Pooley delves into the strange and surprising history of witchcraft beliefs in France, from the Revolution to the Second World War. (Image by Getty Images)

Bewitched cars & mail-order charms: witchcraft in modern France . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A panel of eyewitnesses recall their memories of the divided city and the dramatic events of November 1989. (Image by Getty Images)

Witnesses to the Berlin Wall . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Colin Jones tells the story of Maximilien Robespierre’s fall from power – a dramatic 24 hours that ended with the revolutionary titan facing the guillotine. (Image from Getty Images)

Robespierre’s brutal downfall . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Teachers Richard Kennett and Tom Allen discuss how they have worked with six other teachers to create a new textbook on Bristol and the transatlantic slave trade. (Image by Getty Images)

How should we teach the slave trade? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Following the horrors of the First World War, people around the world set out to create “perfect” societies – with mixed results. Anna Neima charts their efforts. (Image from Getty Images)

Building utopia after WW1 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sue Pritchard, curator of a new exhibition of royal portraits at the National Maritime Museum, discusses how wigs were used to convey royal power. (Image from Getty Images)

Portraits, power and royal wigs . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.