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Part three in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1100–1149

Turning points 1141: Stephen v Matilda . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Part two in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1050–1099

Turning points 1066: The year of four kings . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Part one in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1000–1049

Turning points 1016: The Danish conquest of England . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll in A Very British Scandal (left); Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (right)

The Argyll divorce: the society scandal that rocked 1960s Britain

William the Conqueror was the second king of England to be crowned in 1066

The coronation of William of Normandy on Christmas Day in 1066

Vintners in an ale house, 1642. From a broadsheet titled ‘Health to All’, artist unknown. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas? The Puritan assault on Christmas during the 1640s and 1650s

St Columba. This Irish patron saint's influence on the Christian church was, and still is, felt much further afield

Medieval miracle worker: how St Columba transformed Christianity in Britain

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HistoryExtra Masterclass: Tudor Royal Women with Tracy Borman

Tudor Royal Women with Tracy Borman The Private Life of Elizabeth I . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HistoryExtra Masterclass: Tudor Royal Women with Tracy Borman

Tudor Royal Women with Tracy Borman Rivals to the Throne . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HistoryExtra Masterclass: Tudor Royal Women with Tracy Borman

Tudor Royal Women with Tracy Borman Women at Court . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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HistoryExtra Masterclass: Tudor Royal Women with Tracy Borman

Tudor Royal Women with Tracy Borman Queens Regnant . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black and white image of island prison, taken from the sky

The battle of Alcatraz, 1946: the most violent escape attempt in the prison’s history

A second-century AD relief showing troops of the Praetorian Guard. Historians are agreed that the Ninth Legion was annihilated; what they can't agree on is where. (Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

What happened to Britain’s lost Roman legion?

A 13th-century fresco showing Isabella of Angouleme, Eleanor of Aquitaine and two squires

Eleanor of Aquitaine: the worst royal mother-in-law?

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John Callow discusses the tragic case of the Bideford witches, the last women in England to be executed for the crime of witchcraft. (Image by Getty Images)

England’s last witches . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.