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(L to R) Elizabeth I, Charles II and Edward VII

How to be a successorDo’s and don’ts for heirs to the throne from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hakim Adi

Hakim Adi“There’s still this hangover that everything has to be seen through the prism of enslavement”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

African and Caribbean people in Britain: a 2,000-year history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Royal funerals: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria's son, King Edward VII, rides in Queen Victoria's funeral procession, February 1901. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Thiele/Getty Images)

Lessons from historyWhat happens when a monarch dies?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

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QuizBritish prime ministers

How nomads changed the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Monarchy timelineFrom Hastings to the Windsors in 122 moments

The big questions of religious history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Castles: from mighty fortresses to fantastical palaces. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ilustration showing thorned brambles growing up the nervous system of a pink torso, the brambles at the bottom of the piece are growing in the shape of a uterus, and there are blackberries where the ovaries should be. A blue, gloved hand is coming in from the left to pluck at the ovary blackberry, and another gloved hand coming in from the right is using gardening secateurs to cut one of the branches. A metaphor for endometriosis, and in a broader sense, women's medical neglect and oppression

The gender pain gap: perceptions of women's health through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mount Orgueil – or Gorey Castle in Jersey, Channel Islands

Jersey6 fascinating historical places to explore

Glass men & killer doubles: a history of delusions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A spare anchor sits in its well on the forepeek of the shipwrecked Titanic.

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From Terror to Titanic: 7 famous shipwrecks

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Illustration showing woman receiving a caesarean section

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Q&AWhat are the origins of the caesarean section?

The George Inn at Norton St Philip

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In search of Britain’s oldest pub

Troops clear damage after the Lynmouth flood disaster of 1952

Britain’s flood disasters: a brief history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Sahara: a green and pleasant land. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Measurement: an unexpected history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Treason: from Anne Boleyn to Lord Haw Haw. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A real and a virtual Tycho Brahe surveys the heavens next to his mural quadrant in the frontispiece to ‘Machines of the New Astronomy’. (Photo by DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI via Getty Images)

A history of science in 10½ objects. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jesus is shown cleansing ten lepers in a scene from the Gospel According to Luke, illustrated in an 11th-century manuscript

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LeprosyHow has the disease been perceived and treated through history?

Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893

From Oscar Wilde to David Irving: 9 landmark libel & defamation cases through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Geometric pavers, colourful doors and gingerbread trim on a pair of Victorian terrace houses

Snuffers, scrapers and murder-holes: walking through the history of the front door. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Powerful pages: the beguiling history of books. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1400 farmer ploughing a field.

6 of the most catastrophic weather events in British history

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British schools and education: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Clare Jackson with her Wolfson History Prize winning book, Devil-land

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The story of England’s turbulent Stuart century wins the Wolfson History Prize 2022

Mowgli is surrounded by wolves in a 1937 illustration from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book

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Raised by wolves: the history of feral children

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An environmental history of big business