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Left: Prince Charles and Princess Diana on their wedding day, 29 July 1981. Right: Prince William and Catherine Middleton on their wedding day, 29 April 2011. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

The 8 most famous royal weddings in British history

Statue of King Richard I outside the Palace of Westminster in London

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #13: Why aren’t monuments to medieval figures included in the statues debate, and was there racism in the Middle Ages?

St Swithin (or Swithun). (Image by Alamy)

Q&A Who was St Swithin?

Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #12: secrets of the famous Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

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Stained glass window of King Alfred the Great

Exclusive podcast The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Wolfson Prize winner 2020 David Abulafia. (Photo by Fran Monks)

Exclusive podcast David Abulafia on The Boundless Sea . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of fighter pilots of No. 32 Squadron relax beside their Hawker Hurricane Mk I fighters at RAF Hawkinge in July 1940

The Few: who exactly were the heroes of the Battle of Britain?

Elizabeth I arrives in Tilbury

The Spanish Armada: one of history’s biggest fibs?

A gilt-bronze effigy of Henry III in what is his greatest legacy, Westminster Abbey. (Photo by Alamy)

Henry III in his own words: the medieval king as you’ve never seen him before

Women load up scrap metal at a major steelworks, 1942. During the Second World War, the government opened hundreds of nurseries to encourage women into work but, as Britain returned to peace, most closed. (Photo by Fred Ramage/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Who’s holding the baby? How working mothers navigated the 20th century

Anne Boleyn (left) and her daughter, Elizabeth I. (Photos by Getty Images)

What did Elizabeth I think of her mother, Anne Boleyn? Historian Tracy Borman explains

Globe Theatre illustration

The Globe theatre fire of 1613: when Shakespeare’s playhouse burned down

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Scene from the the Westminster Tournament Roll, commissioned by Henry VIII to document the lavish jousting tournament held to celebrate the birth of his son with Catherine of Aragon

What if… Henry VIII's first son had lived? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dan Jones by the River Medway at Rochester in Kent. Jones is the presenter of 'Walking Britain’s Roman Roads', which aired on 1 July 2020 at 9pm on 5Select

Exploring Britain’s Roman roads with historian Dan Jones

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Amy Robsart and the Earl of Leicester

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