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Memorial cross at Flodden Field, site of Battle of Flodden 1513, Northumberland, 1994. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

8 of Britain’s best battlefields

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Robert Scott Kellner podcast

Opposing the Nazis . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

c1930: a man wrestles his tamed bear. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

Bizarre England: 11 of the strangest attractions and traditions in history

Hitler meets members of the Reich Labour Service. (Photo by AKG)

Q&A: Are any laws made by the Nazi regime still in use?

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Brunel: a hard taskmaster

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

Adolf Hitler in uniform. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

The Third Reich’s nuclear programme: Churchill’s greatest wartime fear

A Pompeii mural depicting a slave, in the Naples Museum. (Photo by Sites & Photos/Capture Ltd/ Alamy Stock Photo)

In Ancient Rome, what was the law of the twelve tables?

A compilation of compass drawn circles, and variants found in many of the churches

Medieval graffiti: the lost voices of England’s churches in the Middle Ages

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The postwar world podcast

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Edwin the Scribe. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Unusual things found in medieval manuscripts

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Charlie Chaplin, in a still from his 1936 film 'Modern Times’. (Photo by American Stock/Getty Images)

My history hero: Charlie Chaplin . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bikes on a canal in Amsterdam and the Basilica of Saint Nicholas church in the background. (Photo by maydays via Getty Images)

My favourite place: Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Shackles that were used to tether slaves, on display at the International Slavery Museum. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

History explorer: the British slave trade . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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John Julius Norwich pictured at the Oxford Literary Festival in 2014. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Books interview with John Julius Norwich: “Most British people know practically nothing about French history” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.