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Regé-Jean Page and Phoebe Dynevor meet for a dance in Bridgerton

Q&A How did people learn to dance in Baroque and Regency times? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, illustrated sitting on a throne

Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians: the warrior queen who crushed the Vikings

The Last Kingdom season 5 starsAlexander Dreymon as Uhtred of Bebbanburg

The Last Kingdom: real history and historical accuracy

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Rafaëlle Cohen as Anne Boleyn in BBC docu-drama The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family

The Château Vert pageant: 500 years since Anne Boleyn’s first recorded appearance at Henry VIII’s court . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English pilot Amy Johnson sat in a plane and wearing a helmet

‘Queen of the Air’: the remarkable life of pioneering English aviator Amy Johnson

The Duke stars Jim Broadment and Helen Mirren, pictured with Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington

The Duke: The real story of Kempton Bunton and the theft of Goya’s Wellington portrait

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Old English: a quick guide . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A late 16th century portrait of Anne Boleyn (c.1500-1536)

Q&A Did Anne Boleyn have six fingers on one hand?

Sir Oswald Mosley taking the salute from female members of the BUF

Your guide to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists (BUF)

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People visit the prehistoric monument Stonehenge in January 2022

Stonehenge: a historian’s guide to visiting the stones . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part two) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Philip II, king of Spain from 1556, seated with Queen Mary I of England. They married in 1554

When Mary met Philip: a Tudor queen in love

GJ1HTR A standing stone at Borvemore, with a view to beaches beyond, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

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Explore 8 little-known prehistoric sites in Britain

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Stonehenge: Not a henge, but certainly a stone circle, and a very long-lived centre of human activity. (Getty Images)

Your guide to Britain’s prehistoric stone circles . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A panorama of the man-made Neolithic structure Silbury Hill in Wiltshire

Explore Silbury Hill & Avebury, the site of Neolithic Britons . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.