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How much do you know about the Vikings? Test your knowledge with our quiz. This mid-19th century painting shows Viking ships on the River Thames. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Quiz How much do you know about the Vikings?

The coronation of Philippa of Hainault

How did Philippa of Hainault, wife of Edward III, become one of medieval England’s best-loved queens?

A statue of Robert the Bruce Statue at Stirling Castle, Scotland. (Dreamstime)

The battle of Bannockburn: Robert Bruce’s fight for freedom

A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)

How have nuclear weapons shaped global politics? 10 key moments in the post-war atomic world

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Two nannies stop for a chat while walking their charges in a London park, March 1916 (Photo by Getty Images)

Working mothers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Crowds flock to the beach at Hastings in August 1938. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

Summer holiday revolution: when were Britons first allowed to take paid holiday?

Prospectors pan for gold in Siberia during the 19th century.

Where did the major gold rushes of the 19th century happen? And why were people so keen to join the gold rush?

Prospecting towns like Dawson boomed during the gold rush.

The dark side of the 19th-century gold rush

A portrait of Henry VIII

The surprising place where Henry VIII is buried

c1962: Military personnel in a car pass through the US Army's Checkpoint Charlie on the Berlin Wall. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

A brief history of Checkpoint Charlie

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A reenactment of the Battle of Nantwich (1644) by members of the Sealed Knot. (Photo by Getty Images)

British battlefields: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Two lovers rest after a hunt, Codex Manesse

Saturday lecture: Medieval love and marriage . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian, author and RAF veteran John Nichol. (Photo by John Nichol)

The Lancaster . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Despite popular misconception, Gladiatorial fighting was not the most popular entertainment in Ancient Rome. (Photo by Alamy)

A brief guide to ancient Rome and the Romans, plus 9 fascinating facts

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Bronze effigy of King Henry III on his tomb, Westminster Abbey, London (Photo by Alamy)

Henry III: inside the mind of a medieval king . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.