Period

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State control

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African skeleton could be an ancestor

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Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall

The ruined site of Clonmacnoise in County Offaly, Ireland. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Wars of the Three Kingdoms part 2

A depiction of enslaved people in a tobacco factory in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1874

General History

Were enslaved people in America ever paid for their work?

A painting from a new exhibition at the V&A Museum in London. 'The Cult of Beauty' explores the 19th-century artistic movement of Aestheticism.

The cult of beauty

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The BBC Story

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Inconsiderate Hannah

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Lead books could be earliest Christian writing in existence

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April issue out now

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Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

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Obituary

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Rome’s lost legion

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A shameless extrovert

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The BBC Story