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A crowd admiring the artworks at an exhibition by the Royal Academy of Arts in Burlington House, London. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A brief history of London tourism since 1800

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1983: the Cold War almost goes nuclear . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Crowds of women from ancient Greece gather round a man holding a vase

Q&A What was life like for Spartan women?

Australian troops head for Gallipoli in 1915

The myths of the battle of Gallipoli

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Economists who changed the world

Economists who changed the world . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mount Stuart, a house built for built for John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute. (Photo by Mount Stuart)

8 of Britain’s best historical houses and gardens

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Medieval bodies podcast

Medieval bodies . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German social, political and economic theorist Karl Marx (1818 - 1883). (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)

The Library Karl Marx: the godfather of revolution

Norsk Hydro's Vermork plant

The Special Operations Executive: Churchill’s secret army

An illustration of Peter Williamson

Peter Williamson: The diehard Scot

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The Library England’s forgotten civil war

Fremantle's High Street, with 19th-century buildings.

My favourite place: Western Australia

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History explorer: The fight for the right to ramble . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A cable car on San Francisco's Hyde Street. The network, established in the 1870s,is an ideal way to explore the city (Stefano Politi Markovina / Getty Images)

Explore San Francisco: the Golden City by the bay . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Norman cavalry charge the enemy in this detail from the Bayeux Tapestry. Debate rages over the pros and cons of the tapestry leaving France for the first time in more than 900 years. (Photo by Photo 12/Getty Images)

Will the Bayeux Tapestry actually come to Britain?