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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.

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BBC at 100 The BBC begins: how a group of radio pioneers launched one of Britain’s most famous institutions

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Pod Edmond Smith WL

Goods & globalisation: merchants in Tudor & Stuart England . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hillsborough Disaster floral tributes

A brief history of the Hillsborough disaster and justice campaigner Anne Williams

Sketch of the battle of Blore Heath, howing the final disastrous charge of the Lancastrians

9 battles that shaped the Wars of the Roses – from St Albans to Tewkesbury

The Beatles pictured in 1969

The Beatles: 8 landmark moments that chart the changing face of sixties Britain

A model of the so-called ‘Piltdown Man’ and a replica of its skull,

Q&A Who was the Piltdown Man?

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Turning points 1832: The ‘Great’ Reform Act . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Turning points 1776: The year of American independence . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Part fifteen in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores explores 1700–1749. (Image by Getty Images)

Turning points 1745: The Jacobite rebellion . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.