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Queen Elizabeth II

How to be a successful monarch

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In pictures: kings and queens through history

Inishbofin, Ireland

My favourite place: Inishbofin, Ireland

A portrait of the writer and antiquarian John Aubrey

John Aubrey: chronicler of the 17th century

Lion Capital of the Pillars of Ashoka from Sarnath. (iStock / Getty Images Plus)

The many lives of India

Man smoking a pipe, early 17th century

Q&A When was tobacco first thought to be dangerous?

Photo of pipe and tobacco

Q&A Did people smoke anything before tobacco was discovered?

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Guy Fawkes “is like a modern-day jihadist,” says counter-terrorism expert

Picture of the Frost Fair on the Thames

Q&A Did the Thames used to freeze over?

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A portrait of Charles II, by 17th-century painter John Michael Wright

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Coughton Court, an English country house

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'Portrait of Oliver Cromwell', (c1653?).

Oliver Cromwell: Hero or Villain?

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Samuel Pepys portrait

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