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The story of Martin Luther King’s struggle for civil rights in America

Though the Jacobites broke the British line at Culloden, they faltered under heavy fire (Photo by Alamy)

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Nancy Astor on the campaign trail in 1919

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Doctor treating a patient, from a 14th-century manuscript. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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A copper engraving of Margaret Pole's execution

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The Cato Street conspiracy

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A medieval monk praying in front of a table of apothacary's herbs

Beating the Black Death: did medieval medicine help people to survive? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Millennium Centre, Cardiff. (Photo by Dreamstime)

Simon Jenkins: “Wales needs to get over England and be Wales again”

Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump

From Lincoln to Trump: a brief history of the US Republican Party

Cat burglars scaled walls and climbed through lofty windows. (Illustration by Rachel Dickens for BBC History Magazine)

The rise of the cat burglar

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Andrew Ziminski pictured at his workshop in Somerset.

Andrew Ziminski "The stonework at Stonehenge is a Gordian knot of mind-bogglingness" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sylvia Pankhurst is taken into custody

History hero Emma Barnett chooses Sylvia Pankhurst (1882–1960)

Go west: Refugees crowd the quayside in the port of Kolberg. Between them and their destination in the west lay freezing waters, mines and enemy submarines. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Operation Hannibal 1945: the Germany evacuation that dwarfed the ‘miracle of Dunkirk’

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A Burglar Looks In, Picture Post 1950. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Burglary: a modern history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.