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Sir Walter Raleigh, a portrait of the great favourite of Queen Elizabeth I

Q&A Why was Sir Walter Raleigh executed?

English highwayman Dick Turpin is pictured astride his horse, leaping over a gate, as he flees his pursuers

The extraordinary legend of highwayman Dick Turpin

An 1891 rugby match between England and Scotland

When was the first international rugby match, and who played in it?

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HEX Academy Vikings - week one video

Viking raiders, with Professor Ryan Lavelle . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Le Premier ministre britannique Ramsey MacDonald et le chancelier de l'Échiquier travailliste Philip Snowden à Londres, au Royaume-Uni. (Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

MacDonald’s leap to power: the story of the first Labour government . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Harold Godwinson: the story of the last Anglo-Saxon king of England

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The Royal Pavilion in Brighton

Visiting Brighton Royal Pavilion, the Prince Regent’s decadent getaway . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A statue of Alice Nutter, one of the 1612 Pendle Witches. The statue is in her home village on Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. (Image by Alamy)

The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial?

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King George III

The illness and decline of King George III . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Alice Mitchell stabs her lover, Freda Ward, to death, shown in a contemporary illustration. A court declared that the killing was an act of insanity.

Victorian murder scandals What six killings tell us about women's lives in the 19th century . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The future Queen Victoria, aged four

Queen Victoria’s unhappy childhood: life under the ‘Kensington System’

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A painting of a partially clothed man (wearing shorts, and an open shirt) reclining on a bed.

The new radicals: how the Bloomsbury Group transformed British culture . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video An introduction to George III . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Rufus Kampa as Prince William

The Crown S6: the challenges of telling the story of living royals . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, in the Tower of London as imagined in Paul Delaroche’s 1852 painting.

Philippa Langley on the Princes in the Tower: “It was clear we had to consider the possibility that they survived” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.