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Two nannies stop for a chat while walking their charges in a London park, March 1916 (Photo by Getty Images)

Working mothers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Two lovers rest after a hunt, Codex Manesse

Saturday lecture: Medieval love and marriage . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian, author and RAF veteran John Nichol. (Photo by John Nichol)

The Lancaster . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Bronze effigy of King Henry III on his tomb, Westminster Abbey, London (Photo by Alamy)

Henry III: inside the mind of a medieval king . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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English admiral Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596), circa 1585. (Photo by Getty Images)

Francis Drake: slave trader . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A slave in chains expressing the inhumanity of slavery with the words 'Am I not a man and a brother?', 1774. (Photo by Getty Images)

Britain and the slave trade . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Henry VIII and Francis I meet at the Field of Cloth of Gold, 7 June 1520. (Photo by Getty Images)

The Field of the Cloth of Gold . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Abraham Lincoln (Photo by Library of Congress)

The secret plot to kill Lincoln . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sam Willis and James Daybell. (Photo by David Hampton, Tudor rose by Alamy)

The unexpected Tudors . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From Nelson to Churchill: challenging British heroes with Afua Hirsch . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Doctors tending to a patient, 14th century. (Photo by Getty Images)

Saturday lecture: Medieval disease and medicine . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Original Gutenberg Bible, Beinecke Library, Yale Univeristy. (Photo by Alamy)

The history of the Bible . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The pirate John Avery and his crew capture the the Moghul emperor Aurangzeb 's ship in the Indian ocean in the late 17th century. (Photo by Getty Images)

Henry Avery: the legendary 17th-century pirate . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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English author, poet and philosopher Geoffrey Chaucer, c 1343, Bodleian Library (Photo by Getty Images)

The cosmopolitan Chaucer . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Man and woman using a long-handled wooden paddle to bake bread in an oven, 15th century. (Photo by Getty Images)

Saturday lecture: Medieval food . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.