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Chris Williams responds to your questions on law enforcement in Britain over the past 300 years. (Image by Getty Images)

British police history: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Hester Barron and Claire Langhamer reveal what we can learn from essays written by Bolton schoolgirls in 1937. (Image by Getty Images)

Working-class girlhood in 1930s Bolton . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fatima Manji talks about objects and landmarks that are often obscured by the traditional stories told in many heritage sites. (Photographed by Sophie Davidson)

The history hidden in British heritage sites . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Thomas Crapper started a plumbing business in Chelsea in 1861 and pioneered some of the most revolutionary designs of sanitary engineering in the 19th century – but he didn't 'invent' the toilet

The legend of Thomas Crapper, the man who didn’t invent the toilet

Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I

Henrietta Maria: Charles I’s warrior queen

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Dr Rory Naismith answers listener questions on Britain in the early Middle Ages. (Image from Getty Images)

Early Medieval Britain: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portraits of Anne, Thomas and Mary Boleyn.

The Scandalous Boleyns Why Do They Continue To Fascinate Us?

Anne of Denmark, wife of James I of England

Anne of Denmark: a killer queen?

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Mary, Queen of Scots during her trial at Fotheringhay Castle – where she was also executed for her alleged role in the Babington Plot (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

What if... The Babington Plot to assassinate Elizabeth I had succeeded? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Laurence Olivier pictured in New York, 1933. “In my young mind he was theatrical royalty – almost a kind of monarch,” says Steven Berkoff. (Image by Getty Images)

History hero Steven Berkoff chooses Laurence Olivier (1907–89)

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Lucy Bland discusses the childhood experiences of babies fathered by African-American GIs stationed in Britain during the Second World War. (Image from Getty Images)

Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women munition workers stacking a reserve of shell castings during WWI

Young guns: the women and children of WW1 munitions factories

Portrait Of Edward Seymour (Colorized)

Edward Seymour: the fall of the dithering dictator

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Ronald Hutton discusses Oliver Cromwell’s early life and career, exploring the brilliance and cruelty of the future Lord Protector. (Image by Getty Images)

Oliver Cromwell’s remarkable rise to power . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Norman Davies introduces a long-maligned and overlooked monarch, George II, and reveals that there are in fact many reasons to remember his reign. (Image from Getty Images)

George II: reassessing a much-forgotten monarch . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.