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Turning points1638: The Scottish Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vintners in an ale house, 1642. From a broadsheet titled ‘Health to All’, artist unknown. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas? The Puritan assault on Christmas during the 1640s and 1650s

The Stuart princess who could have deposed Charles I. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

England’s last witches. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Salem witch trialsEpisode 9: conclusion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Salem witch trialsEpisode 8: Willful, weak-minded women?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Salem witch trialsEpisode 7: Quarrelsome neighbours & family tensions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Salem witch trialsEpisode 6: Chaos in the courtroom. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Salem witch trialsEpisode 5: Satanic sabbaths and supernatural sins. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Giving birth in the 17th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of the Gunpowder Plot principal conspirators, copied from a rare print published at the time (5 November 1605). (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images).

Remember remember the 5th of November: why Bonfire Night is a 400-year-old political hot potato. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A very short history of bonfire night

Guy Fawkes and the men behind the gunpowder plot. Guy Fawkes, best known of the conspirators, is third from the right. (Print Collector/Getty Images)

Why did the 1605 gunpowder plot fail? 9 big questions about the conspiracy to blow up parliament. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historical recipeSpiced Hot Chocolate

Engraving showing flying fish leaping over a Spanish trade ship

Winds of change: how the discovery of trade winds powered Europe's empires. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Clare Jackson“England was seen as a pariah state, ruled by regicidal rebels who’d publicly executed their king”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A scene from the Salem witch trials, depicted in a 19th-century lithograph. How two girls’ accusations of witchcraft escalated into one of the darkest episodes in early American history has long puzzled historians. (Image by Alamy)

When the devil stalked Salem: the story of the Salem witch trials

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Salem witch trialsEpisode 4: The pervasive power of puritanism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Salem witch trialsEpisode 3: A ‘new Jerusalem’ on the edge of a wilderness. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Salem witch trialsEpisode 2: How events spiralled out of control. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Salem witch trialsEpisode 1: introduction. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historical recipeFour Thieves Vinegar

(Illustration: Clair Rossiter for BBC History Magazine)

Beans, ale & 'windy meats': surprising 17th-century aphrodisiacs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of folk figure Dick Whittington

Dick Whittington, the Loch Ness Monster and a talking mongoose: 8 mythical figures of British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hume Castle

Q&AWho was the original king of the castle and who was the dirty rascal?

A portrait of Charles II sitting on a throne

Your guide to King Charles II, the ‘merry monarch’

Ronald HuttonOliver Cromwell: Saint or Serpent?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The turbulent Stuart century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A statue of Oliver Cromwell stares downwards, against a red background

The dark truth about Oliver Cromwell

A phantasmagoria by Belgian entertainer Etienne-Gaspard Robert, whose stage name was Etienne Robertson, 1797. (Photo by Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Phantasmagoria: creating the ‘ghosts’ of the Enlightenment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.