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The Abingdon Sword, an iron sword fragment and hilt found near Abingdon in Oxfordshire in 1874. The decoration on the sword hilt indicates this was a high status weapon dating from around AD 875. (Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Fighting the Vikings . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The plague, Sir Walter Ralegh and Jerusalem . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jenkins’ Ear?

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PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII, THE, Charles Laughton, 1933
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Henry VIII: Three films

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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City

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Second World War

The Triumph of the Dark: European International History, 1933–1939

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Talk like a lady

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Rare Chartist pamphlet discovered

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The Admiral Benbow: The Life and Times of a Naval Legend

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The price of smoke

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Q&A Who was John Parkes, a ‘gladiator by profession’? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Man may have sailed the sea 130,000 years ago

Interior of Neolithic Hut at Skara Brae Neolithic settlement, Orkney. Stone 'furniture' can be seen. The hearth is in the centre, and there are stone beds on the left and right sides, and a stone 'dresser' on the far wall. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Skara Brae

Stonehenge, aerial view

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Book review: A History of Ancient Britain

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“A taste for husbands’ buttocks”: the bizarre history of pregnancy cravings