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History’s greatest cities: Québec City . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Stephen Tuffnell delves into the Klondike gold rush, a two-year whirlwind that brought at least 30,000 prospectors to the remote Yukon in search of glory and gold. (Image by Getty IMages)

Digging into the Klondike gold rush . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Everything you wanted to know about Canadian history

Canadian history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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In 1845, the Franklin Expedition sailed into the Canadian arctic and never returned. Andrew Lambert explores the real history that inspired the BBC drama The Terror. (Image by Getty Images)

What happened to the Franklin Expedition? The real mystery behind The Terror . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 19th-century depiction of HMS Erebus in the ice, by François Etienne Musin. What exactly happened to the ship and its crew remains a mystery. (Picture by Alamy)

The Franklin Expedition: what happened on the ill-fated Victorian voyage?

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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.

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Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

Coronavirus: what might we learn from pandemics in the past? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector

Royalists, beards and cowardice: are these the strangest taxes in history?

This 1867 magazine illustration shows a group of children preparing for Halloween. (Photo by American Stock/Getty Images)

The origins of Halloween: tricks, treats and cobbled streets

Highclere Castle

The secrets of Downton Abbey’s Highclere Castle

Troops of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade (Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry Highlanders) going ashore, Normandy, France, 6 June 1944. (Credit: Gilbert Alexander Milne/Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada/PA-122765)

Second World War

“Free people everywhere should remember them”: the Canadians’ role in D-Day

A biplane takes off from Newfoundland

Alcock and Brown: the first aviators to fly across the Atlantic