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Williams, Maisie as Arya Stark

Game of Thrones: the real-life medieval history

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton star in the 1967 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'. One of the playwright's most notorious couples, Katherine and Petruchio are far from a harmonious love match. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

Shakespeare’s 7 most notorious couples

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June 2016

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Tourists mill around the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. The landmark is topped by the Quadriga.
Berlin, Germany - Dec 2015

My favourite place: Berlin

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Shakespeare’s world and cricket in South Africa . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Shakespeare’s London: playing a dangerous game

Swan Theatre, Bankside, London, interior from drawing by Johannes de Witt. The Shakespearian theatre, erected c1593 on Bankside – could hold 3,000 spectators – typical of the time. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

At the playhouse: watching Shakespeare’s plays in Elizabethan England

Elizabeth I of England

Personal politics in Elizabeth I’s court

Mary, Queen of Scots is executed © Getty

Horrible Histories author reveals 10 ways to die in Elizabethan England

A marble bust of the Emperor Hadrian who ruled from AD 117 to 138

Hadrian’s travels

Dan Jones, Suzannah Lipscomb
PTC for Six Queens of Henry VIII
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Dan Jones and Suzannah Lipscomb on ‘Henry VIII And His Six Wives’

German astronomer Johannes Kepler c1620. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

The astronomer and the witch: Johannes Kepler’s fight to save his mother from execution

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Student life and working class culture . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of five marble busts of typical early Roman citizens. The empire expanded by absorbing the peoples it defeated, giving rights and obligations to former outsiders. (Photo by Gjon Mili/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Mary Beard on why Rome ruled the world

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Monopoly maps: the history of MI9’s secret Second World War escape programme