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The effigy of Eleanor of Castile on her tomb

The love lives of medieval queens

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Fern Riddell explores some of the darker aspects of the campaign for votes for women, in this episode from our archive. (Image by Getty Images)

Were the suffragettes terrorists? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kathryn Smithies discusses the economic and cultural significance of donkeys in the Middle Ages. (Image by Getty Images)

Ten things to do with a medieval donkey . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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View of a copy of the Magna Carta and seal of King John. (Photo by Getty Images)

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

Richard III

Richard the radical: was Richard III a champion of the people?

Nelson's passion for Emma – with whom he had a six-year affair – is writ large in his letters

Nelson in his own words

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Charles Darwin at his home at Down House, Kent, c1880. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

History hero Andrew Marr chooses Charles Darwin (1809–82) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Portchester Castle in Hampshire was intended as a coastal defence against raiders. (Photo by Getty Images)

The collapse of Roman Britain: what happened, plus 9 places which tell us more . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A Roman mosaic floor at Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight. (Image by Alamy)

Fishbourne Roman Palace, plus 5 more Roman mosaics you can explore in Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sujit Sivasundaram offers a new perspective on the expansion of the British empire across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. (Image by Getty Images)

Imperialism on the oceans . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wrens operating the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park, 1943

Second World War

Your guide to Bletchley Park, the key WW2 decryption centre

Jane Austen. (Image by Getty Images)

Jane Austen’s fiction: an accurate portrayal of life in Georgian England?

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Rushton Triangular Lodge was ostensibly a warrener's lodge but the biblical references that adorn its three exterior walls tell a different story. (Photo English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

History explorer: Catholic resistance to Elizabeth I . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The orphan hero who fought at Trafalgar . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This engraving by William Hogarth shows the final instalment of a sequence of artworks called 'The Four Stages of Cruelty' (1751). In it, the fictional Tom Nero is being dissected for anatomical studies at Cutlerian theatre near Newgate prison after being hanged for murder. Nero looks like the Dead-Alive, as though he can see and smell his own executed body on the dissection table. The chief physician sits in the centre on a high-backed chair, resembling a high court judge. He is surrounded by various medical men, including penal surgeons, who did gallows work. The skeletons of dissected criminals were usually refused a Christian burial and so were displayed as specimens, as can be seen top left and top right. (Photo by Guildhall Library/Getty Images)

Surviving the gallows: the Georgian hangings that didn’t go to plan