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Cromwell's words, Richard's crusades and the 1930s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth I: Fortune’s Bastard?

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Joseph Goebbels

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Tiger tanks in battle

Second World War

The fate of the Graf Spee

The Alfred Jewel: gold, rock, crystal and enamel

Objects of affection

A portrait of Oliver Cromwell

Putting words into Cromwell’s mouth

Sunbathers enjoy some fun and games at a tennis court near a lido at Castle Mill, Cheshire, August 1936

The 1930s: When the future looked bright. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Peaceful war: was the 19th century a time of relative peace?

Obesity and the modern lifestyle: what can we learn from history?

Historians ignore the human element at their peril

Arundel castle at dawn

Where history happened: Stephen and Matilda. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A History of Arctic Exploration

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A World by Itself

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Searching for Order

Some household cures would aim to rebalance the body's humours

Household medicine: sickness, salves and skillets

Russian and Polish women liberated from a forced labour camp

Voices of the Holocaust

Allan Pinkerton

Allan Pinkerton: The eye that never slept

An illustration of the compound microscope used by British inventor and microbiologist Robert Hooke

An experimental society. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Broadcaster Simon Mayo

My history hero: William Trevelyan Richards. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A Question of Memory

Historical objects - toilets and medicines. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Book review – The English Marriage

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We’re still waiting for school history’s next big idea

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The lesser-spotted postbox

When was the first mosque in Britain built?

Four history books

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Boyle: Between God and Science

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Ten things to do in… January

Lewis Chessmen found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, probably made in Norway, about AD 1150-1200. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

The LibraryObjects with meanings: How artefacts can give us a new take on global history