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Mural of the battle of Actium from 1600

Actium, 31 BC: the beginning of the end for Mark Antony and Cleopatra

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14th century miniature showing a child's baptism. (Photo by Getty Images)

Exclusive podcast What’s in a medieval name? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Parnethon, Athens

How to build a democracy (Athenian-style)

Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall: everything you need to know

Painting of Martin Luther translating the New Testament into German vernacular in 1521 (Photo by Fine Art Photographic Library/Corbis via Getty Images)

Your guide to Martin Luther, the theologian who launched the Reformation

Athenian red-figure cup showing a seated man with a naked boy in the inside tondo, 470 BC

What was pederasty in ancient Greece?

Top, left to right: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour. Bottom, left to right: Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Katherine Parr.

Henry VIII’s six wives: your guide to the Tudor king’s queen consorts

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A 19th-century painting of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

What if… Abraham Lincoln hadn't been assassinated? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies (Public Domain)

The real Harlots: Hallie Rubenhold on Covent Garden’s courtesans

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Afrikaners with a Nordenfeld-Maxim field gun at Mafeking during the Second Boer War, 1900. (Photo by Getty Images)

Authors in the Boer War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Attila the Hun

General ancient history

Who was Attila the Hun, the barbarian ruler who terrorised the Romans?

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View of East Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (Photo by Library of Congress)

The American Civil War: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian Janina Ramirez

Exclusive podcast Janina Ramirez on extraordinary medieval women . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving of Margaret Tudor

The forgotten Tudor: Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII

Half-sisters and daughters of Henry VIII: Mary Tudor (left) and Elizabeth I, who both reigned as queen of England. (Photos by Getty Images)

Did Elizabeth I and her half-sister, Mary Tudor, have a good relationship? Historian Tracy Borman explains