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A family history of France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of folk figure Dick Whittington

Dick Whittington, the Loch Ness Monster and a talking mongoose: 8 mythical figures of British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of the Red Dragon of China

Has China always been the world’s greatest superpower?

Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia

Haile Selassie, last emperor of Ethiopia and architect of modern Africa

A homemade ouija board, a treasure hunt and fake madness: the great escape of World War I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dinosaur dung became a valuable commodity in 19th century Cambridgeshire. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Dinosaur dung billionaires: the Victorian 'gold rush' for fossilised faeces. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Berbice: a slave rebellion that nearly succeeded. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration from The Travels of Marco Polo, showing a teenage Marco on the deck of a ship sailing away from Venice

Why are Marco Polo's travels so famous?

Trial by combat: the real history behind The Last Duel. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A West Indian immigrant in 1960s Britain: A real lonely Londoner. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 14th-century illustration shows two bishops watching men fight to the death in a trial by combat.

Medieval trial by combat: the real history behind The Last Duel

A montage of Romans (Photos courtesy of Getty and Alamy)

How ethnically diverse was Roman Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hume Castle

Q&AWho was the original king of the castle and who was the dirty rascal?

The title page and frontispiece of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative, a first-hand account of his experience in slavery and how he seized his freedom. (Image by Getty Images)

David Olusoga on the extraordinary story of Olaudah Equiano. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A medieval miniature depicts a monk and a woman in a bed.

Sex in the Middle Ages: have attitudes really changed?

Liberty and racism: an interconnected history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&ACould Roman slaves buy their own freedom?

The fabled ‘Vegetable Lamb of Tartary’ was a plant said to grow sheep as its fruit.

Q&AWhat was the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary?

George III: the tyrant who lost America?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of First World War nurse Edith Cavell with one of her dogs

First World War

Edith Cavell: how the executed British First World War nurse became a symbol of peace

A portrait from the 18th century of King George III wearing his coronation robes

George III: why his reputation as the mad king who lost America needs to be re-evaluated. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace: a visionary of computing

A woodcut showing the interior of a kitchen in Elizabethan England. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hold your noses: the smells, sounds and sights of Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A reconstruction of a Viking church

Vikings in America: the Europeans who arrived 500 years before Columbus. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 12-year-old boy with a large bruise on his face ‘pulls threads’ in a New York sweatshop

The 19th-century slums of New York

At home with the Mongols. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Charles II sitting on a throne

Your guide to King Charles II, the ‘merry monarch’

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

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