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Global history and the rise of the factories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The other Elizabethan England

The coffin containing the remains of Richard III. The skeleton of the king was discovered in 2012 in the foundations of Greyfriars Church, Leicester, 500 years after he was killed during the battle of Bosworth. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

The discovery of Richard III's remains

1914: Why Britain had to go to war

My history hero: Robert Baden Powell (1857–1941). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American poet Ezra Pound, a major figure of the early modernist movement. (Universal History Archive/UIG/Getty Images)

The march of the Green Shirts

Beaumaris Gaol, Anglesey, Wales. The prison could accommodate up to 30 inmates under the so-called 'silent system', in which inmates slept in separate cells at night but worked and attended chapels and classes together during the day. (Ashley Cooper via Getty Images)

History Explorer: 19th-century prison reform. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Top 5 Jane Austen recipes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My favourite historical places: Professor Peter Gaunt

Angles, Saxons and Jutes

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New website charts London's well-being across 125 years

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My favourite historical places: Professor Laura Gowing

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Revealed: the Houses of Parliament that never came to be

A photograph showing bronze hand-bells

Medieval Scotland

Who's the best-dressed Briton in history?

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“Forbear wine and tobacco”: advice for 17th-century university freshers revealed

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Army of volunteers needed to investigate vulnerable buildings

History Explorer: Neolithic treatment of the dead. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The June 1933 cover of the Radio Times. (Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Changing times: 90 years of the Radio Times

The princes in the Tower: why was their fate never explained?

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‘Garnett’s Straw’

Gertrude Bell: adventurer, diplomat, mountaineer and anti-suffragette

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Heritage funding and 'dumbing down' fears shared on Twitter

Great Earl of Kildare 'extended English rule over Ireland'

"The important thing about the battle of Crécy is that Edward was clearly, in my view, using tactics and weapons that had never been seen on a battlefield before," says Richard Barber. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

Books interview: Edward III and the triumph of England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Merchants and lower-ranking gentlemen often put pen to paper themselves, but wealthy men and gentlewomen were more likely to employ a scribe. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How to send a letter in medieval England

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Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957–59

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Your country needs you! Volunteers called upon to transcribe historic archives

Flodden 1513: the biggest ever Anglo-Scottish battle

An engraved depiction of John Lilburne, who "stands as a towering icon of the liberal tradition". (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: John Lilburne (c1615-57)