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Mystery and drama with the Romans and the Elizabethans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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You’d be a mug to sneer at royal wedding souvenirs

Lincoln’s British enemies

Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall

The ruined site of Clonmacnoise in County Offaly, Ireland. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Wars of the Three Kingdoms part 2

A painting from a new exhibition at the V&A Museum in London. 'The Cult of Beauty' explores the 19th-century artistic movement of Aestheticism.

The cult of beauty

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Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

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Obituary

Rome’s lost legion

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True or false? The answers

The fine rolls of King Henry III

My history hero: Douglas Bader (1910–82)

The making of the King James Bible

Two women from South America. Six centuries ago South American civilisations matched the west in some respects. (Getty Images)

The wonder of the west

A historical image from the iron and steel industry in Teeside

Industrial revolution

175 years of iron and steel

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True or false?

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Luxury – the new ‘four letter word’

The site of the battle of Naseby, which saw parliament's New Model Army win its first major battle against the royalists in June 1645. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Wars of the Three Kingdoms part 1. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Women don’t always change channel when the bombs begin to fall

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Historic Rochester

Illustration by Glen McBeth

Is it true that a huge brawl once broke out among MPs in the House of Commons in the 19th century?

Elizabethan adventurer, courtier, navigator and historian Sir Walter Ralegh – "a gorgeous, larger than life figure". Unfortunately, many of his peers weren't impressed by his good looks, and saw instead an arrogant man, blind to his own weaknesses. (Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The LibraryWalter Ralegh: the heroic traitor

A woman puts a foundling, or her own unwanted child, into a revolving doorway in a hospital or orphanage wall, intended for unwanted children. (Getty Images)

A mother's love: tokens left with London's foundling babies

Ironclad and the Siege of Rochester

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The Language Wars: Review of the reviews

8 reasons to visit historic Chelsea

Illustration of couple with bubonic plague

Where the Black Death happened: 9 places connected to the plague

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Boffinology: The Real Stories Behind Our Greatest Scientific Discoveries