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Scientists to investigate ‘British archaeology’s greatest hoax’

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Book review – Napoleon

A photograph of Queen Victoria and her descendants, taken in April 1894 in Coburg, Germany. The photograph shows Queen Victoria's position at the centre of a network of alliances created by strategic marriages, which gave her the name 'the grandmother of Europe'. (Alamy)

A photograph of Queen Victoria and her family: what can it tell us?

In the 16,000 years after the end of the last Ice Age, societies in Eurasia and the Americas followed radically different trajectories. Here, an Aztec priest offers the heart taken from a living person to the god of war, Huitzilopochtli. (Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

The old world and the new

Aftermath of the Staplehurst rail crash, a derailment at Staplehurst, Kent in 1865, that killed ten passengers and injured forty. Author Charles Dickens was among the passengers who escaped unscathed. “He spent hours aiding the hurt and dying and extricating the dead,” says Jonathan Grossman. (SSPL/Getty Images)

Dickens on the move

Line engraving depicting the burning of Rawlins White, c1555. From a late 18th-century edition of John Foxe's 'The Book of Martyrs'. (Alamy)

The Making of Martyrs

German scientists Dr Carl Eisenmann, Dr Mersch, Dr Trabat and Dr Stocklin. (Express/Getty Images)

The intelligence war for German scientists

Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in the centre of Florence (Getty)

A big day in history: Florence’s bonfire of the vanities

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Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Corfu 1864 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917). (Alamy)

My history hero: Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

English medical student Roger Bannister

A history of British sport

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Glenluce Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

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The BBC Story

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Masters of the Post: The Authorized History of the Royal Mail

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Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt