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The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation

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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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Museum bid to acquire ‘new world’ George Stubbs paintings

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Christians 'airbrushed women out of history'

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

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

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Ye Olde Travel Guide: Borneo 1856. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

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Q&A: When and where was the trebuchet invented?

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

A Second World War memorial monument depicting Soviet soldiers

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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.

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What is the origin of the phrase ‘Dutch Courage’?

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Civil War battlefield added to English Heritage list

Residents of Chongqing on the streets of their bombed-ravaged city in the autumn of 1940. China's temporary wartime capital was subjected to 218 Japanese air raids between May 1938 and August 1941, costing nearly 12,000 lives. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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China’s forgotten Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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'World's oldest calendar' discovered in field in Scotland

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Team to trace pioneering Grand Canyon journey

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Historical recipes

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

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6 royal births that rocked a nation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Ye olde travel guide: Astrakhan 1747. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history hero: John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

George G Meade, best known for defeating Confederate General Robert E Lee at the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. (Photo by Matthew Brady/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)

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Gettysburg: Lincoln’s greatest victory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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When did Italian replace Latin as the language of Italy?

The Royal Artillery Memorial in London is a tribute to the immense power of artillery and its dominant role in the Great War. Pictured here is a bronze statue of a Royal Artillery driver, leaning back against the parapet in an attitude of exhaustion or contemplation. (Photo by View Pictures/UIG via Getty Images)

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Where history happened: remembering the Great War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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What did the ancient Greeks do for us?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Mick Aston obituary

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A woodcut depicting a witch hanging in England, c17th Century. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

Tudor

Witches in the dock: 10 of Britain’s most infamous witch trials

Three coal miners. (Photo by W. Eugene Smith/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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History through the eyes of the working man. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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