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The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine – Antiquarian, Architect and Visionary

The Victorian trade in dead bodies.

Robert Louis Stevenson, the 19th-century English poet and novelist perhaps best known for his books 'Treasure Island' and the 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

My history hero: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94).

Q&A: Where did the monks go after the dissolution of the monasteries?.

A view of Lindisfarne Castle, where a former priory became a naval depot. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Tudor navy.

Nelson mortally wounded at Trafalgar in 1805

Nelson: the unhappy admiral.

Traquair House, Peeblesshire

Suzannah Lipscomb on the importance of the Tudors.

Andrew Jackson Cottage and US Ranger Centre, County Antrim

Alfred the Great and Æthelflæd, 13th century

The Anglo-Saxon cunning woman.

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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).

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

Chepstow Castle', C1770S.

The LibraryWales in the Civil War: the last refuge of monarchy.

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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.

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).

The scandal of female miners in 19th-century Britain

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Eric Hobsbawm obituary

Hampton Court Palace

The LibraryWhere history happened: a history of disability.

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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.

Cowdray, West Sussex

Visit historic Carlisle

Rochester Castle

First World War

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.

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