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A researcher examines the medieval Voynich Manuscript with a magnifying glass

The Voynich Manuscript: who wrote the mystery medieval codex and what is it trying to tell us?

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Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I.

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

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Equestrian portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer from the Ellesmere manuscript of his Canterbury Tales (14th century).

Cosmopolitan Chaucer: the 14th-century poet’s inventive, international life . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving depicting a scene of chaos at Bethlem Royal Hospital

Bethlem Royal Hospital: why did the infamous Bedlam asylum have such a fearsome reputation?

A scene from the Smithfield Decretals depicting a rabbit beheading a man. Rabbits seem to have a strange place in medieval imagery – and are depicted as having strangely violent tendencies.

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #5: chivalry, medieval killer rabbits and prisoners of war in the 15th century

King Edward II

In profile: King Edward II

The British home has changed substantially in the past 300 years (Illustration by Ed Crooks)

The evolution of the British home: from the Georgian era to the present day

King John hunting on horseback

Was King John really that bad? Yes!

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David Olusoga in the Bristol house featuring in series 3 of A House Through Time (Photo by BBC–Twenty Twenty Productions–Mark Bourdillon)

David Olusoga on A House Through Time . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Annie Gray photographed at her home in East Anglia (Photo by Ian Farrell)

Cooking for Churchill . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Illustration of King John ripping up Magna Carta

What if... Magna Carta hadn’t been written? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian Emma Griffin. (Photographed by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)

Books interview with Emma Griffin: “Looking at family life reveals a dark side to Victorian economic progress” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Cloisters at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire (Photo by Dreamstime)

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

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The Great Plague, from a pictorial broadsheet of 1665-1666 (Photo by Getty Images)

Surviving the Great Plague . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry III during the Second Barons' War

Simon de Montfort and the barons’ crusade: why rebel lords waged holy war against Henry III