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A crew of Dambusters pictured together in c1943. The famed Dambusters raid, Operation Chastise, was an RAF attempt to breach German dams and so "deprive Ruhr industry, and the Mittelland Canal of water, over the longest period of time possible". (Royal Air Force Official Photographer/ IWM via Getty Images)

The legacy of the Dambusters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A big day in history: Rioters give East Anglia's rich and respectable a fright. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Goodrich Castle, Herefordshire

The Spanish Armada: Tudor spin portrayed the events of August 1588 as a glorious English victory but, argues Robert Hutchinson, bad weather and bad tactics had more to do with the Spanish fleet's failure than Elizabethan derring-do. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Spanish Armada: England's lucky escape. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General prehistory

Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire

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

BBC History Magazine

Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages

Visit historic Warwick

BBC History Magazine

Time's Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination

The story behind Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home

Grosvenor Museum, Chester

How the Tudors invented breakfast. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How many years of its existence has Britain been at war?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

When completed in the early 12th century, Durham Cathedral was "absolutely up-to-the-minute in its design and near-perfect in its execution," says Marc Morris. (Jim Gibson via Getty Images)

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

Polperro Museum, Cornwall

BBC History Magazine

Songs of Innocence: The Story of British Childhood

Thomas Cromwell: a thug in a doublet?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History explorer: the historic Culloden battlefield

Where now for Richard III?

Bridgnorth Castle, Shropshire

A noisy history of the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Abraham Lincoln in 1863. The 16th president of the United States "understood the value of hard work, had deep beliefs and pursued them," says Alastair Campbell. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

My history hero: Abraham Lincoln (1809–65). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

One of the two 19th-century bronze sphinxes sited next to Cleopatra's Needle, London's oldest monument. (Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

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

An oil painting depicting the battle of Camperdown, a "crushing British victory" over the Batavian (Dutch) Republic in the North Sea. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Tales from Nelson's navy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

BBC History Magazine

Live genealogy show returns to London Olympia

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

BBC History Magazine

Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain

The call for the First Crusade was initially made by Pope Urban (pictured) in 1095. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Britain and Islam: a matter of faith. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cosmeston Medieval Village, Glamorgan