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Photo of red wine

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Q&AWhere and when was wine first made?

Anglo-Saxon treasures, and did Britain invent freedom?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Larry Siedentrop photographed for BBC History Magazine. (Image by Geraint Lewis)

Books interview with Larry Siedentop: "What is distinctive about the west is that the organising social role is no longer the patriarchal family and instead the individual". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Isle of Tiree, Hebrides

General prehistory

Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire

A Mayan funeral mask, made from jadeite and shell

The Maya and the apocalypse

Antique double-hemisphere map of the world, complete with landscapes and mythological scenes. (GraphicaArtis/Getty Images)

5 big questions in global history

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St Fagans, Cardiff

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Clearwell Caves, Gloucestershire

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

Prehistoric village people: exploring the Orkney Islands

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Skara Brae

Stonehenge, aerial view

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Book review: A History of Ancient Britain

Lewis Chessmen found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, probably made in Norway, about AD 1150-1200. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

The LibraryObjects with meanings: How artefacts can give us a new take on global history