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A portrait of George Robert Twelves Hewes
Georgian

George Robert Twelves Hewes: the shoemaker who became a patriot

Joséphine de Beauharnais
Georgian

Joséphine de Beauharnais: how Napoleon’s muse became empress of France

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Life - Genghis Khan V
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Video podcast Life of the week: Genghis Khan . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A black and white photo showing a group of friends having a picnic, including Josef Mengele (third from the right).
20th Century

Tracking down the Nazi ‘Angel of Death’: one man’s hunt for Josef Mengele

Illustration of a woman with an insect net looking at some larger-than-life butterflies and moths.
General Early Modern

Eleanor Glanville: the butterfly collector

Anglo-Saxon thegns
Norman

Q&A Who was Eadnoth the Staller?

A portrait of Chevalier d’Éon presenting as a woma
Georgian

Chevalièr d’Éon: the tale of an 18th-century gender non-conforming spy

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Images of Sidi Mubarak Bombay
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Sidi Mubarak Bombay: the unsung African adventurer behind the European explorers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of Albert Einstein looking into the camera
General Modern

Albert Einstein: facts about his life, death, education and work

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J Robert Oppenheimer (left), and Cillian Murphy
20th Century

Oppenheimer: the real history of the ‘father of the atomic bomb’

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Pod Kai Bird WL
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Oppenheimer: “destroyer of worlds” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American aviator Bessie Coleman pictured in c1922, around the time she made her debut flight. Her astonishing aerial stunts would earn her the monikers ‘Queen Bess’ and ‘Brave Bessie’ (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
20th Century

Bessie Coleman: a boundary-breaking pilot who fought for her dream

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Joseph Chamberlain (far right) pictured with his sons Neville (far left) and Austen, daughter Hilda (front left) and third wife, Mary Endicott (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Chamberlain and Cadbury of Birmingham The first families in Britain’s second city . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The fall and rise of Henry III . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Medieval

Geoffrey Chaucer 5 key things to know