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Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged

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BBC History Magazine now available on Google Play

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Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power

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Rydal Mount, Cumbria

Medieval ploughmen ploughing with oxen

The dark side of the Anglo-Saxons

First Textbook

Toys and games that killed in Tudor England

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A misunderstood view of de Montfort’s rule

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Historic Helmsley

A 1864 campaign banner. (David J & Janice Frent/Corbis via Getty Images)

US presidents: Race, religion and re-election?

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The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine – Antiquarian, Architect and Visionary

A Mayan funeral mask, made from jadeite and shell

The Maya and the apocalypse

The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries by Jacques-Louis David

Napoleon’s great cultural charade

'Resurrectionists', or grave robbers, stealing a corpse from a cemetery to be sold for anatomical study and dissection, c1840. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Victorian trade in dead bodies

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Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye olde travel guide: Philadelphia 1774 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A view of Lindisfarne Castle, where a former priory became a naval depot. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Tudor navy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.