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A detail of the decorative carving on the side of the Oseberg cart c850 AD. A woman with streaming hair apparently restrains a man’s sword arm as he strikes at a horseman accompanied by a dog. Below is a frieze of intertwined serpentine beasts. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Viking women: raiders, traders and settlers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bust of Homer c850 BC. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

“We are all Trojans…”: Homer’s poetic legacy

American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks poses as she works as a seamstress, shortly after the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, February 1956. (Photo by Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

The battle for the US Constitution: how the 14th Amendment is under threat

Programme Name: Hidden Killers of the Post War Home - TX: n/a - Episode: n/a (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: in 1950s kitchen. Dr Suzannah Lipscomb - (C) Modern TV - Photographer: Gary Morrisroe

Behind the scenes of Suzannah Lipscomb’s ‘Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home’

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The battle of Jutland and 1950s domestic dangers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nepal, Kathmandu Valley listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, Kathmandu, Swoyambhunath Stupa, Buddhist place of worship

My favourite place: Kathmandu

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A photograph of Queen Victoria c1887. (Alexander Bassano/Spencer Arnold/Getty Images)

General History

9 of history’s best quotes

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A Victorian murder and a ship that made history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Our Kind of Traitor: an interview with former MI6 intelligence officer Nicholas Anderson

Illustration by Arthur Rackham to the play ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ by William Shakespeare. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

The fairy menace

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Kate Summerscale. (Photo by Fran Monks)

The wicked boy: the mystery of a Victorian child murderer . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in Burma, March 1944. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

When Britain tamed ‘superman’

Brandenburg Gate, Berlin. (Photo by Oliver Duerre/EyeEm/Getty Images)

Second World War

My favourite place: Berlin

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The Cutty Sark, Greenwich, London. (Photo by Dreamstime)

The Library History explorer: the golden age of sail . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.