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A group of BBC staff surround a large piece of broadcasting equipment

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

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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.

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Part thirteen in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1600–1649. (Image by Getty Images)

Turning points 1638: The Scottish Revolution . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Spanish Armada which threatened England in July 1588. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Turning points 1588: The Spanish Armada . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Portrait of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543). (Photo by: PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

Turning points 1534: Henry VIII declares his ‘empire’ . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Part ten in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1450–1499

Turning points 1483: Richard grabs the throne . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 in England began in Brentwood, Essex as a protest at the collection of poll tax and reached a climax at Smithfield, London. Richard II (1367-1800) met the Kentish peasants who, under Watt Tyler (d1381), were demanding the end of serfdom. During the meeting William Walworth (d1385) Lord Mayor of London, wounded Wat Tyler who was taken to St Bartholomew's Hospital but was later dragged out of the hospital and beheaded. 19th century lithograph. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Turning points 1381: The Peasants’ Revolt . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Part four in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1150–1199

Turning points 1171: The English invasion of Ireland . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.