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The Empire State building

FeatureFive facts about the Empire State Building

BBC History Magazine

On the Silk Road with Sam Willis

A combo picture of two images taken 13 August 2002 at Cairo Museum shows a foot of a mummy missing its big toe and beside it a prosthetic toe of leather and wood to replace the amputated real one. (Photo by Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images)

Q&AHow long have people used prosthetic limbs?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Brontë family.

The Brontës at war: how Charlotte and Branwell brought Waterloo into their drawing room. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The history of consumerism and Chinese philosophy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dan Jones and Suzannah Lipscomb discuss Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves

Members of Assassins cult kill Conrad I of Jerusalem. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Edmund II - better known as Edmund Ironside - shown in a 14th-century manuscript. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons)

Edmund Ironside: Anglo-Saxon warrior king

A brief history of Offa’s Dyke

The Valletta skyline – in the centre is St Paul's Anglican Cathedral and Carmelite Church. (Photo by Getty Images)

My favourite place: Malta

Game of Thrones: the real-life medieval history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton star in the 1967 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'. One of the playwright's most notorious couples, Katherine and Petruchio are far from a harmonious love match. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

Shakespeare’s 7 most notorious couples

BBC History Magazine

June 2016

My favourite place: Berlin

Shakespeare’s world and cricket in South Africa. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shakespeare’s London: playing a dangerous game. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Swan Theatre, Bankside, London, interior from drawing by Johannes de Witt. The Shakespearian theatre, erected c1593 on Bankside – could hold 3,000 spectators – typical of the time. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

At the playhouse: watching Shakespeare's plays in Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth I of England

Personal politics in Elizabeth I's court. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary, Queen of Scots is executed © Getty

Horrible Histories author reveals 10 ways to die in Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A marble bust of the Emperor Hadrian who ruled from AD 117 to 138

Hadrian's travels. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Dan Jones and Suzannah Lipscomb on 'Henry VIII And His Six Wives'

German astronomer Johannes Kepler c1620. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

The astronomer and the witch: Johannes Kepler’s fight to save his mother from execution

Student life and working class culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of five marble busts of typical early Roman citizens. The empire expanded by absorbing the peoples it defeated, giving rights and obligations to former outsiders. (Photo by Gjon Mili/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Mary Beard on why Rome ruled the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Monopoly maps: the history of MI9’s secret Second World War escape programme. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shakespeare: the historians’ view. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Catherine Howard. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Catherine Howard: The death of innocence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Queen Elizabeth I painted by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

How Shakespeare rewrote history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Guillaume Apollinaire and his wife, Jacqueline Kolb, on the terrace of the boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, France, in 1918. (Photo by adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)

My history hero: Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charles II entering London in May 1660 following the restoration of the monarchy. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

Clare Jackson"Charles II had to appeal to public opinion more than his predecessors did". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.