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Victory at Poitiers: The Black Prince and the Medieval Art of War

The man best associated with the new style of landscape gardening was William Kent (c1686–1748), a Yorkshire-born artist and architect. (Public domain)

The English landscape garden. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historic Jedburgh

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Warrior Generals: Winning the British Civil Wars

The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family that Shaped Britain

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Politicians have been scared of discussing immigration for years

King John and the French invasion of England

A 'poster parade' of Ealing suffragettes advertising a meeting to be held on Ealing Common, 1 June 1912. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

9 historical sites linked to the suffragettes movement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryMedieval outlaws: the real Robin Hoods. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Philip Pembroke Stephens (1903–37). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Winston Churchill

'Ask your father': the general election of 1945. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Has Britain always united behind commemorations of the war dead?

Where history happened: Dunkirk. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The British Empire: Three Films

The Battle of Marathon plus Dunkirk and WWII refugees. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Trials of the Diaspora. A History Of Anti-Semitism In England

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May’s Historic Trips...Ten Things To Do

Charles Théveneau de Morande: an 18th-century French spy in London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

‘Smugglers', c1785, from ‘Adventures by sea from art of old time’ by Basil Lubbock. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Smugglers and the birth of Britain’s consumer society. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paper talk: a newspaper's take on the Restoration. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Charles II wearing the robes of the Order of the Garter. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Charles II: the people’s prince. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The procession of Charles II between the Tower of London and Westminster on the eve of his coronation. Painting by the Dutch painter and etcher Dirk Stoop (c1610-c1685). (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Where history happened: The Restoration. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Restoration plus Britain's relationship with chocolate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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April’s Historic Trips... 10 Things To Do

Where the Bosworth battle really happened and a detailed look at rationing. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle of Bosworth site. (Photo by Darren Walker/Dreamstime)

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Did Henry VIII love his last wife Katherine Parr?

A helmet marks a trail over fields from the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, 2013. The site is close to the spot where the battle of Bosworth took place in 1485, and the place where King Richard III was killed. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Bosworth: the race to find the battlefield. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Boar badge of Richard III discovered in Bosworth Field. (Photo by Creative Commons)

Bosworth battle site: have we discovered where Richard III died?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hadrian's Wall photographed at Hotbank Crags and looking towards Crag Lough in Northumberland National Park. (Photo by Roger Coulam/Getty Images)

The LibraryApocalypse then circa 410: the end of Roman Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.