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Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex (later Harold II of England), on horseback, holding a hawk. From the Bayeux Tapestry (Photo by Getty Images)

Medieval rebellions . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Barry Cunliffe

Scythians: Warrior Nomads of the Steppe . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Dag Hammarskjöld

The mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld: a Cold War killing? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Simon Schama photographed in Hauteville House, Guernsey (Photo by Oxford Films, Photographer Eddie Knox)

Simon Schama on the Romantics . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Isabel Wilkerson. (Photo by Alamy)

Isabel Wilkerson on caste in America . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Anita Anand (Image by Sukhi Dhanda).

Exclusive podcast Anita Anand on an orphan radicalised by the Amritsar massacre . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Police and railwaymen assist some of the 800 evacuee children as they leave Ealing Broadway station, London, for the country on 1st September 1939 (Photo by Getty Images)

Britain goes to war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ernest Bevin

Ernest Bevin: working-class warrior . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A late 18th-century painting of British and French sailors going head-to-head at war

The uncommon lives of common sailors . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Dan Jones. (Photograph by Steve Sayers)

Exclusive podcast Dan Jones on the human stories of the crusades . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Selim I

The extraordinary life of Sultan Selim I . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Edward the Confessor (Anglo-Saxon king of England from 1042) on his throne, as shown in the Bayeux Tapestry. (Photo by Getty Images)

Edward the Confessor . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Some of the 5,000 Jewish and non-Aryan German child refugees, the 'Kindertransport', arriving in England at Harwich from Germany, 2 December 1938. (Photo by Getty Images)

Revisiting the Kindertransport . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Dominic Sandbrook

Exclusive podcast Dominic Sandbrook on the 1980s . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A meeting of early 19th century Freemasons in which the an apprentice or candidate is introduced to the lodge (Photo by Alamy)

The story of the Freemasons . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.