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A deadly royal favourite? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Vaux-le-Vicomte: the inspiration for Louis XIV’s Versailles

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Ronald Hutton on the Witch . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Six-Day War and the Great Fire of London . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Great Fire - Presenters Rob Bell, Dr Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones.

Video: Historian Dan Jones on the Great Fire of London 1666

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Civil wars and Restoration England . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Scandal, conspiracy and the affair of the poisons: inside the court of Louis XIV

Procession of Charles II between the Tower of London and Westminster on the eve of his coronation, 1661. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

1660: The year that changed everything

Terracotta vicar and Moses, c1770, in the Victoria And Albert Museum, London. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Vicars on the liquor

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Bribes, gifts and scandal: 7 stories of corruption that shocked Britain

King James II of England and VII of Scotland (1633 - 1701), c. 1680. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A king without a crown: James VII and II’s years in exile

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When Britons were slaves in Africa

19 November 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers arriving on the Mayflower and landing in New England, where they founded the Plymouth Colony. Original artwork: painting by Charles Lucy. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

It is claimed that the Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth but I’ve also heard that they started in Boston, Lincolnshire. Which is correct?

Lady Hall launches the British India Company passenger liner SS Uganda in Clydeside docks with the traditional bottle of champagne, 1952. The first time champagne was used to launch a ship was when Queen Victoria launched HMS Royal Arthur in 1891. (Photo by George Douglas/Getty Images)

Q&A Why do we smash champagne bottles against new ships?

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Black British history and Charles I’s children . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.