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Alfred the Great and Æthelflæd, 13th century

The Anglo-Saxon cunning woman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain

British political cartoonist David Low. His caricatures of political figures including Hitler resulted in him being placed in the Nazi 'Black Book' – a list of prominent Britons who were to be arrested in the case of a successful invasion of Britain. (Photo by Felix Man/Picture Post/Getty Images

My history hero: Sir David Low (1891–1963). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Commander: The Life and Exploits of Britain's Greatest Frigate Captain

Chepstow Castle', C1770S.

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Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in 20th-Century England

Nuclear bomb test. (OFF/AFP/Getty Images)

How Britain got the bomb. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Herbert 'Blondie' Hasler (left) pictured with Bill Sparks and Mary Lindell. It was "his ability to take ordinary men and give them the confidence and skills to do extraordinary things" that made him a hero, says Paddy Ashdown. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: ‘Blondie’ Hasler (1914–87). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The scandal of female miners in 19th-century Britain

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Eric Hobsbawm obituary

Hampton Court Palace

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The Road Not Taken: How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution

A runestone depicting two warriors fighting and the journey of the Vikings to Valhalla, the hall of slain. (DEA/G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

The Vikings at home. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cowdray, West Sussex

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Rochester Castle

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The Great War

Shibden Hall, Halifax

Sudley House, Liverpool

An illustration titled ‘The petition for abolishing the slave trade’, from Amelia Opie’s ’The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar’, London, 1826. “Come, listen to my plaintive ditty,/Ye tender hearts, and children dear!/And, should it move your souls to pity,/Oh! try to end the griefs you hear.” (Photo by Photo 12/UIG via Getty Images)

9 key places connected to the abolition of the British slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Last Highlander: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan-Chief, Rebel and Double-Agent

Weobley Castle, Swansea

‘Portrait of a Lady’ by Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, c1460. From the collection of the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval underwear: bras, pants and lingerie in the Middle Ages

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Was there ever an execution where rain saved someone from being burned at the stake?

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The Day Parliament Burned Down

Argyll’s Lodging, Stirling

The White Tower, one of the oldest parts of the Tower of London complex, was built by William the Conqueror. (Getty Images)

Castles of the Conqueror

A Victorian drawing room with pictures in heavy frames and ornately covered furniture, c1860. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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My history hero: Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

North East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland