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Actor Boris Karloff as Frankenstein's Monster in James Whale's classic 1931 film

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: the birth of a gothic monster

The ruins of the once magnificent Roche Abbey

The dissolution of the monasteries: mindless violence or planned precision?

Photo of an Anglo Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo

Sutton Hoo: a brief guide to the Anglo-Saxon burial site and its discovery

A depiction of Robin Hood, the heroic archer in English folklore who supposedly robbed the rich and gave to the poor. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Robin Hood: 7 myths about the legendary outlaw of Sherwood Forest

The Sutton Hoo excavations are the focus of a new film, 'The Dig'. Carey Mulligan stars as Edith Pretty, and Ralph Fiennes portrays Basil Brown

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The Dig: the real history of the remarkable Sutton Hoo excavation

A scene from an early rugby union game

The history of rugby: when was the sport invented?

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Ahead of the release of the new film The Dig, Professor Martin Carver discusses the real story of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo. (Image by Getty Images)

Spectacular discoveries at Sutton Hoo . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The inner courtyard of the old pottery factory at Gladstone Pottery Museum, with its five towering bottle ovens. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

History explorer The Gladstone Pottery Museum . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria: how and why did she become Empress of India?

Princess Feodora (left), half-sister of Queen Victoria (right)

Princess Feodora: the little-known sister of Queen Victoria

English cavalry attacking the Sikh at the Battle of Aliwal

Victoria the warrior queen

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Dominic Sandbrook answers popular search queries and listener questions about Britain in the 1960s. (Image by Getty Images)

Britain’s Swinging Sixties: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with five of their nine children, by Frederick Winterhalter

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: was their union a marriage of misery?

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Priya Satia explores how historians helped advance the British empire, only to later become critics of imperialism. (Image by Getty Images)

How historians helped build the British empire . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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David Hepworth tells the story of the British rock bands. (Image by Getty Images)

When British pop invaded America . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.