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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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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)

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Excavation search for soldiers killed on Flodden battlefield

A poster from the First World War.

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First World War posters

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The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation

Books interview: the life and career of Benjamin Disraeli. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pilot recreates 1913 Circuit of Britain flight

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Churchill’s wartime speeches are overrated, claims academic

A fresh look at Edward III. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryThe downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots and a British civil rights struggle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Margam Park, Port Talbot

Great Train Robbery gang: first-class thieves or criminals who got lucky?

Jackfield Tile Museum, Telford

A colourful painting from the 15th century showing several merchants gathered together

The LibraryMoving to medieval England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The LibraryJohnnie Walker: U-boat hunter in the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of historian Sarah Foot at St Mary the Virgin Church

The LibraryHistory Explorer: the rise of English Christianity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Second World War memorial monument depicting Soviet soldiers

Q&AWhy did Britain and France not declare war on the Soviet Union when the Red Army marched on Poland in September 1939?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.