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The Library My favourite place: Paris, France

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My history hero: John Updike (1932-2009) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Journey’s End: behind the scenes of the new First World War film . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Britain’s secret wartime prison . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Living with the oceans . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My favourite place: Paris, France

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The story of the Bayeux Tapestry . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Bayeux Tapestry to be loaned to the UK: historians react . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The charging Norman cavalry shown in glorious technicolour at the battle of Hastings in this masterpiece of storytelling. (Art Archive)

How English is the Bayeux Tapestry?

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What’s the real history behind ‘Britannia’?

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Scythians: the art of war

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The real history behind Victoria series two

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A woman looks at 'The Recognition of Philopoemen', c1609 by Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens at the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

A beginner’s guide to art history