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Comedian Rhona Cameron and political activist Peter Tatchell help to hold a banner at an LGBT Pride event in London, 1998. (Photo by Steve Eason/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The historians’ view: is the world finally waking up to transgender issues?

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Portrait of King Henry VI, the subject of this episode of the History Extra podcast. (Photo by Bridgeman)

Henry VI: terrible king . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Are we returning to an age of political extremes? (Illustration by Davide Bonazzi for BBC World Histories Magazine)

The big question Are we returning to an age of political extremes?

Is it true that an angry mob of Dutchmen killed and ate their own prime minister in 1672? (Illustration by Glen McBeth)

Q&A Is it true that an angry mob of Dutchmen killed and ate their own prime minister in 1672?

British military behind a barricade in Dublin, 1916. (Photo by ullstein picture via Getty Images)

Bullets and ballot boxes: a history of Anglo-Irish relations since the Easter Rising

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Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty in WWI. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

Churchill’s navy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Marlborough Pie. (© Jessica Hope)

Historical recipe Malborough pie

A portrait of Karl Marx, the German economist, sociologist and philosopher who is known for his work the 'Communist Manifesto'. (Getty Images)

Your guide to Karl Marx: who was he, what was the Communist Manifesto and why is he important?

A 15th-century detail from the Fountain of Youth, Piedmont, Italy. (Image by De Agostini/Getty Images)

Sexing up history: how to study and tell the history of sex

A brief history of capital punishment in Britain

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Jack Sheppard and his accomplice Blueskin rob a home without waking the owner, circa 1720. (Photo by Alamy)

Victorian murder scandal . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English countrywoman (right) with a lady of the court. From ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’, 1572. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Tudor women: what was life like?

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Rutger Bregman. (Photo by Maartje ter Horst)

Rutger Bregman: historian in the news . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Woodcut of a woman who may be stoking a furnace or baking bread, printed in the 15th century. (SSPL/Getty Images)

What was life like for a medieval housewife?

Bill Edwardes, who at the age of 16 joined the army to fight during WW2.

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The boys who lied about their age to fight in WW2