England

Biddenden Maids Cake. (Public Domain)

Sisters of mercy: the Biddenden Maids

English actor Laurence Olivier as Richard III in a production of Shakespeare's play of the same name. (Photo by Felix Man/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Shakespeare’s best (or worst) villains

Memorial cross at Flodden Field, site of Battle of Flodden 1513, Northumberland, 1994. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

8 of Britain’s best battlefields

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Shackles that were used to tether slaves, on display at the International Slavery Museum. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

History explorer: the British slave trade . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henry VIII “regarded his wars as the worthy successors of the great martial victories of England’s past”, says Steven Gunn. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

The Library Total war in Tudor England

A crowd gathers to watch the witnesses arrive for the trial of John George Haigh, the 'acid bath murderer', in Lewes, East Sussex, July 1949. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

10 facts about crime on the home front in the Second World War

A scene from ’Othello’ by William Shakespeare, published in 1622. The play “seems to have been influenced by Anglo-Moroccan relations that reached their high point in the summer of 1600,” writes Brotton. (Culture Club/Getty Images)

Elizabethan England’s relationship with the Islamic world

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The Terracotta Warriors podcast

The Terracotta Warriors . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Diversity in nursing

In pictures: Diversity in nursing

Police hold back Mrs Lillian Bilocca on the quayside at Hull

The 1968 Triple Trawler Disaster and the women who fought for change

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Elizabeth’s love rival . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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East End crime . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What’s the real history behind ‘Britannia’?

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Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A 19th-century depiction of the first meeting of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

History quiz: Christmas with Henry VIII and his wives . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.