Where history happened

Ashton Court, Bristol

Smuggling’s heyday in Bristol and beyond. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mont Saint Michel (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Mont Saint Michel, France

Yorkshire’s top 10 historical sites as county prepares for Tour de France 2014

My favourite place: Michael Scott

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My favourite place: Saul David

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My favourite historical places: Professor Rebecca Earle

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My favourite historical places: Dr Kate Williams

My favourite historical places: Dr Marc Morris

Ye olde travel guide: Prague 1600. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My favourite historical places: Dr Elaine Farrell

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My favourite historical places: Dr Julie Barrau

History explorer: the catastrophe of the Black Death. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Simon Thurley at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire. It was here, in 1771, that Richard Arkwright set up his first water-powered mills, "bringing people to a single place where they could be organised into an efficient workforce". (BBC History commissioned portrait by Mike Abrahams)

History Explorer: the rise of the factory. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My favourite historical places: Joanna Innes

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My favourite historical places: Professor Richard Alston

My favourite historical places: Professor Peter Barry

Ye olde travel guide: Caracas 1783. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My favourite historical places: Professor Robert Bickers

History Explorer: Neolithic treatment of the dead. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Heidelberg 1618. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Thessalonica 1423

A photograph of historian Sarah Foot at St Mary the Virgin Church

The LibraryHistory Explorer: the rise of English Christianity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Borneo 1856. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Royal Artillery Memorial in London is a tribute to the immense power of artillery and its dominant role in the Great War. Pictured here is a bronze statue of a Royal Artillery driver, leaning back against the parapet in an attitude of exhaustion or contemplation. (Photo by View Pictures/UIG via Getty Images)

Where history happened: remembering the Great War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Astrakhan 1747. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tironensian communities such as that of Kelso Abbey were particularly popular in Scotland. (Heartland-Arts/Getty Images)

Where history happened: the monastic revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Winnipeg 1913. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Aerial view of the Roman fort of Vercovicium

10 places where history was made

Ye olde travel guide: Madrid 1621. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ye olde travel guide: Rio de Janeiro 1820. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.