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A group of Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading newspapers at their club

Penelope J Corfield “The Georgian era was a time of experimentation and invention” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An oil on panel portrait of Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville: Edward IV’s controversial queen consort

Charles and Camilla, 1979

Charles and Camilla A history of their romance

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A 19th-century lithograph showing a medieval criminal claiming sanctuary by placing his arm through the ring on a church door (Picture by Bridgman)

Sanctuary in medieval churches: how criminals found protection from capture and punishment . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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London schoolboys on strike, Shoreditch, September 1911. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Schoolchildren on strike: when pupils demanded shorter hours . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Illustration by Luke Waller

The Pentrich Rising: England’s forgotten armed revolution . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait showing Mary, Queen of Scots with her hand on her hip

Mary, Queen of Scots: your guide to her life and times

Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton, next to a Regency portrait of Kitty Kirkpatrick.

Inspiring Bridgerton: the real South Asian women in Regency-era England

The capture of the pirate Blackbeard, 1718. Painting by JLG Ferris. One of history’s most notorious pirates, Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach almost certainly had a West Country twang because he was born in Bristol in around 1680. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Q&A Did most English pirates really talk with a West Country accent?

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Podcast Dominic Sandbrook WL

How the Beatles were in tune with 60s Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Alfred the Great “managed to ensure history’s enduring affection by making sure that he wrote it himself,” argues Max Adams. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Alfred the Great: “He was an excellent king, but that’s not the whole story” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Plan of the island of Utopia, from Thomas More's work of the same name depicting an ideal state

Thomas More’s Utopia – what lessons did it have for Tudor England? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King George II of Great Britain

George II: 8 facts about the British king and German elector

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Vienna Plague Hospital, 1679. (Getty Images)

What were women’s lives like during the 17th-century plague? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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School photo showing rows of children from a Manchester school

Did Britain really roar in the 1920s? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.