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‘Smugglers', c1785, from ‘Adventures by sea from art of old time’ by Basil Lubbock. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Smugglers and the birth of Britain’s consumer society

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), pictured here c1895, is one of the most important figures in modern Russian literature. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: Anton Chekhov (1860–1904). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paper talk: a newspaper's take on the Restoration

A portrait of Charles II wearing the robes of the Order of the Garter. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Charles II: the people’s prince. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pitt the Elder: Man of War

The procession of Charles II between the Tower of London and Westminster on the eve of his coronation. Painting by the Dutch painter and etcher Dirk Stoop (c1610-c1685). (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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

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The Restoration plus Britain's relationship with chocolate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Nine Wartime Lives

Second World War

Hitler’s bloody swastika

When did the English alphabet first exist, and why are there 26 letters in the order we know them today?

BBC History Magazine

Making Haste from Babylon

Colourblind history

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April’s Historic Trips... 10 Things To Do

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Empire of the Seas: How the Navy Forged the Modern World

Where the Bosworth battle really happened and a detailed look at rationing. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British soldier, explorer and big game hunter Frederick Selous, pictured in 1914. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The hunter who became a naturalist

The battle of Bosworth site. (Photo by Darren Walker/Dreamstime)

The LibraryBosworth: did gunpowder win the day?

Did Henry VIII love his last wife Katherine Parr?

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What is History in schools for?

A helmet marks a trail over fields from the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, 2013. The site is close to the spot where the battle of Bosworth took place in 1485, and the place where King Richard III was killed. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Bosworth: the race to find the battlefield

Boar badge of Richard III discovered in Bosworth Field. (Photo by Creative Commons)

Bosworth battle site: have we discovered where Richard III died?

Hadrian's Wall photographed at Hotbank Crags and looking towards Crag Lough in Northumberland National Park. (Photo by Roger Coulam/Getty Images)

The LibraryApocalypse then circa 410: the end of Roman Britain

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Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750–1850

A ship in a storm

How did Britain come to rule the waves?

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The World That Never Was

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Ten things to do in ... March

The English writer and radio broadcaster JB Priestley at home on the Isle of Wight, 1933. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

My history hero: JB Priestley (1894–1984). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lady Jane Grey's execution, as imagined by painter Paul Delaroche in 1833. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Lady Jane Grey: why do we want to believe the myth?