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'The Fountain of Youth', 1546. Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Everard Digby: the man who taught Tudors to swim

The LibraryThomas Becket and 16th-century swimming. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Medieval petitions and 17th-century astronomers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Industrial Revolution is revisited and Big Ben turns 150. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Recreating a Victorian farm and the life of Captain Cook. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The burning of Templars (From: De casibus virorum illustrium by Giovanni Boccaccio). Artist: Master of the White inscriptions (active ca 1480)

The Templars on trial: a very muted inquisition

Thomas Paine on both sides of the Atlantic and the plight of the suffragettes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

D-Day and the Templar on trial. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Nazi serial killer and a Tudor gentleman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British history: the turning points. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announces the outbreak of the Second World War in a BBC broadcast, 1939. (Fox Photos/Getty Images)

History hero: Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hampton Court and the Amritsar massacre. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Matchgirls strike and back to 1918. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The legend of King Arthur and fighter pilots. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Miss Ivy Williams

6 trailblazing women in history

Official First World War Photographers

Britain’s First World War flying aces

The LibraryAn adulterous scandal and a grisly end. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Attenborough on Darwin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Zulu wars and American presidents, past and present. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Robert Burns and Francis Bacon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life in a London slum and the Last Judgement. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ancient civilisations and Victorian shopping. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Made of basalt, this inscribed stone dates to the sixth century BC. The figure is Nabonidus who was the last king of Babylon before the Persian invasion under Cyrus II. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

Babylon: From riches to ruins

A portrait of William Hogarth, whom Simon Jones admires for possessing an extraordinary eye for pictorial detail and social nuance. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

My history hero: William Hogarth (1697–1764). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Arthur addresses his knights in a 12th-century Arthurian manuscript now held in Rennes, France. (Photo by: Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

Would the real King Arthur please stand up

Secrets of WWII, the French Revolution and 'The History of Scotland'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Britain’s green pioneers

New US citizens celebrate after taking the oath at a US District Court for the Central District of California naturalisation ceremony, 2007. (Photo by Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Simon Schama on American history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A second-century bronze head of Roman Emperor Hadrian

Hadrian: rescuer of the Roman Empire

Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

Walking with Che Guevara