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Two members of the BEF (British Expeditionary Forces)

Indian soldiers at Dunkirk . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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King John II made prisoner at the Battle of Poitiers by the English during the Hundred Years War, 1356. Illustration

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

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David Olusoga in the Bristol house featuring in series 3 of A House Through Time (Photo by BBC–Twenty Twenty Productions–Mark Bourdillon)

David Olusoga on A House Through Time . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Two fighting Irishmen with axes, one hitting another in the head. Illustration after the Roy manuscript, 13th century (Photo by Getty Images)

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

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Annie Gray photographed at her home in East Anglia (Photo by Ian Farrell)

Cooking for Churchill . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Rutger Bregman. (Rutger Bregman (Photo by Maartje ter Horst)

Rutger Bregman’s optimistic history of the world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian and author Emma Griffin (Photo by Fran Monks)

Living on the edge in Victorian Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Great Plague, from a pictorial broadsheet of 1665-1666 (Photo by Getty Images)

Surviving the Great Plague . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Portrait of Isabella d'Este in Red by Pieter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). (Photo by Getty Images)

Rethinking the Renaissance . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Florence Nightingale

The life and legend of Florence Nightingale . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The German chief of staff General Alfred Jodl signs an unconditional surrender to the Allies in Reims, France, 7 May 1945 (Photo by Getty Images)

Britain at War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Miners work hard in cramped conditions at the pit face in Ellington Colliery, Northumberland, 1951 (Photo by Getty Images)

The Northumbrians: from Bede to Geordie Shore . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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View of the Norse Buildings, L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, Newfoundland. (Photo by Alamy)

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

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Irish people starving during the Potato Famine

The Corn Laws crisis . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tectonic foliation in metamorphic rocks at Porthleven, Cornwall. (Photo by Getty Images)

How the world made us . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.