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The Spanish Armada: Tudor spin portrayed the events of August 1588 as a glorious English victory but, argues Robert Hutchinson, bad weather and bad tactics had more to do with the Spanish fleet's failure than Elizabethan derring-do. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Spanish Armada: England’s lucky escape

British soldiers in Normandy. Though Goodwood cost the British some 200 tanks, infantry losses were relatively light, says Mark Urban. (Capt. E G Malindine/IWM via Getty Images)

Operation Goodwood: one of the biggest British disasters of the Second World War?

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‘4,000-year-old skeleton’ uncovered near Windsor

18th-century slave uprising

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General prehistory

Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire

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Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages

A Pompeian fresco from the first century showing a woman tuning a musical instrument. Excavations at the partially buried Roman city reveal that women played a prominent role in the home, and that they took personal grooming very seriously indeed. (Photo by: Werner Forman/UIG via Getty Images)

At home with the Romans

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Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States

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Visit historic Warwick

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Yorkshire Viking hoard ‘is nationally important’

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Time’s Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination

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The story behind Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home

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Grosvenor Museum, Chester