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The reluctant ambassador: the life and times of Tudor diplomat Sir Thomas Chaloner

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The history of… re-enacting battles

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Jacobites and the Ancient World . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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British reserve troops waiting to move up to the forward area during the battle of the Somme, France, 1916. Photograph from the Daily Herald Archive. (Photo by Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

The Somme: was it really a monstrous failure? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler is welcomed by supporters at Nuremberg, 1933. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Enigma before Bletchley: the German spies who betrayed Hitler to steal codes

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Queen Street Mill in Burnley. (Photo by Alamy)

History explorer: the power of cotton . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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On the trail of the Yorks: 8 places associated with Richard III’s family

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Two King Edwards . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A group of sunbathers, wearing protective goggles, on a sandy beach, circa 1925. (Photo by Henry Miller News Picture Service/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

The history of the suntan

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Q&A Mein Kampf: what happened to Hitler’s money after his death?

Events leading up to the battle of Hastings, and the conflict itself, are depicted in the Bayeux tapestry, a 68-metre-long embroidered frieze probably made within 20 years of the Conquest. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Bayeux unravelled: the scenes behind the threads

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My favourite place: Bologna, Italy

Mompesson House, which has sinister connections with a ghost known as the Demon Drummer. (Clare Hargreaves/The National Trust)

9 haunted historic houses

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Monument to the Spanish Civil War (Dreamstime)

Spain’s very international civil war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.