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England

Illustration by Luke Waller

The Pentrich Rising: England's forgotten armed revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait showing Mary, Queen of Scots with her hand on her hip

Mary, Queen of Scots: your guide to her life and times

Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton, next to a Regency portrait of Kitty Kirkpatrick.

Inspiring Bridgerton: the real South Asian women in Regency-era England

The capture of the pirate Blackbeard, 1718. Painting by JLG Ferris. One of history’s most notorious pirates, Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach almost certainly had a West Country twang because he was born in Bristol in around 1680. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Q&ADid most English pirates really talk with a West Country accent?

How the Beatles were in tune with 60s Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alfred the Great “managed to ensure history’s enduring affection by making sure that he wrote it himself,” argues Max Adams. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Alfred the Great: "He was an excellent king, but that's not the whole story". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Plan of the island of Utopia, from Thomas More's work of the same name depicting an ideal state

Thomas More's Utopia – what lessons did it have for Tudor England?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King George II of Great Britain

George II: 8 facts about the British king and German elector

Vienna Plague Hospital, 1679. (Getty Images)

What were women's lives like during the 17th-century plague?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

School photo showing rows of children from a Manchester school

Did Britain really roar in the 1920s?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of BBC staff surround a large piece of broadcasting equipment

BBC at 100The BBC begins: how a group of radio pioneers launched one of Britain's most famous institutions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Goods & globalisation: merchants in Tudor & Stuart England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hillsborough Disaster floral tributes

A brief history of the Hillsborough disaster and justice campaigner Anne Williams

Sketch of the battle of Blore Heath, howing the final disastrous charge of the Lancastrians

9 battles that shaped the Wars of the Roses – from St Albans to Tewkesbury

The Beatles pictured in 1969

The Beatles: 8 landmark moments that chart the changing face of sixties Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A model of the so-called ‘Piltdown Man’ and a replica of its skull,

Q&AWho was the Piltdown Man?

Turning points1832: The ‘Great’ Reform Act. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Turning points1776: The year of American independence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Turning points1745: The Jacobite rebellion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Turning points1638: The Scottish Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Spanish Armada which threatened England in July 1588. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Turning points1588: The Spanish Armada. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543). (Photo by: PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

Turning points1534: Henry VIII declares his ‘empire’. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part ten in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1450–1499

Turning points1483: Richard grabs the throne. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 in England began in Brentwood, Essex as a protest at the collection of poll tax and reached a climax at Smithfield, London. Richard II (1367-1800) met the Kentish peasants who, under Watt Tyler (d1381), were demanding the end of serfdom. During the meeting William Walworth (d1385) Lord Mayor of London, wounded Wat Tyler who was taken to St Bartholomew's Hospital but was later dragged out of the hospital and beheaded. 19th century lithograph. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Turning points1381: The Peasants’ Revolt. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part four in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1150–1199

Turning points1171: The English invasion of Ireland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part three in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1100–1149

Turning points1141: Stephen v Matilda. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part two in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1050–1099

Turning points1066: The year of four kings. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part one in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1000–1049

Turning points1016: The Danish conquest of England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll in A Very British Scandal (left); Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (right)

The Argyll divorce: the society scandal that rocked 1960s Britain

William the Conqueror was the second king of England to be crowned in 1066

The coronation of William of Normandy on Christmas Day in 1066