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Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: your guide to the poet’s life, work and love

Triumphant Death chases Londoners from their city

How 17th-century London reacted to the Great Plague

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Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry Episode 3: What story does the Tapestry tell? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Newark Castle flanked by the river Trent. To say that King John's death here in 1216 was little-lamented is something of an understatement.

King John and the French invasion . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ammonite and the real fossil hunter Mary Anning . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Excerpt from the Textus Roffensis showing Christ and a dragon

The Textus Roffensis: a medieval manuscript to rival Magna Carta

A union flag flown on HMS Queen Charlotte at the battle known as the Glorious First of June, 1794

Q&A When was the Union Jack or Union flag created?

Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and known as the Kingmaker, meets his end at the battle of Barnet in 1471

Q&A Why was Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, known as the Kingmaker?

Battle of Barnet: This lively, if inaccurate, 15th- century illustration of the shows a coronet- wearing Edward skewering Warwick with his lance

The battle of Barnet, 1471: the Wars of the Roses clash that killed the Kingmaker

Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan) in Francis Lee's new film 'Ammonite'. (Photo courtesy of Lionsgate UK / See-Saw Films)

The real history behind Ammonite

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Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry Episode 2: How was the Tapestry created? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Shrabani Basu talks about a miscarriage of justice that exposed the racial tensions of Edwardian England and captured the imagination of the creator of Sherlock Holmes. (Image by Getty Images)

Hate mail & mutilated horses: Conan Doyle investigates . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Nicola Tallis responds to listener questions about the Elizabethans, from the religious rifts of the era to the fate of Queen Elizabeth I’s royal jewels. (Image by Getty Images)

The Elizabethans: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Sutton Hoo helmet. (Image by Getty Images)

Long read | The man at Sutton Hoo

An undated image of George Edalji. (Image credit: Cheslyn Hay Local History Society)

George Edalji and the Great Wyrley killings: a real-life Sherlock Holmes mystery