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Keith Thomas. (Photo by Fran Monks)

Books interview with Keith Thomas: “The world was divided into the ‘civil’ and the ‘barbarous’” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vera Brittain, who worked as a nurse during the First World War and went on to become one of the leading writers of the interwar years. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Love, loss and distorted memories

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Grenfell Tower: from hope to tragedy

Grenfell Tower: from hope to tragedy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Harold Godwinson’s two eldest sons fled to Ireland after the Battle of Hastings, where they lived as guests of the King of Leinster. (Photo by Duncan1890 via Getty Images)

Q&A What happened to Harold Godwinson’s children after the Battle of Hastings?

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Jane Seymour – HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s favourite queen . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian John Ashdown-Hill

Richard III historian John Ashdown-Hill dies

Bearded Victorian man. (Photo by Getty Images)

A brief history of beards

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The beach at Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast of Devon and Dorset, has attracted fossil hunters for centuries. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: Georgian fossil hunting . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Four police officers, members of the Bow Street Horse Patrol, pose for a photograph with a horse.

The rise of the Great British ‘bobby’: a brief history of Britain’s police service

Street urchins in Lambeth, London, 19th century

Escaping the workhouse: the Victorian war on child poverty

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Podcast: Were the suffragettes terrorists?

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Richard Burbage

Richard Burbage: the vanishing act of the star who outshone Shakespeare

A crowd admiring the artworks at an exhibition by the Royal Academy of Arts in Burlington House, London. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A brief history of London tourism since 1800

Mount Stuart, a house built for built for John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute. (Photo by Mount Stuart)

8 of Britain’s best historical houses and gardens

Thomas Becket

The Library England’s forgotten civil war