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The CIA: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of a young Queen Victoria from around the time of the first assassination attempt in 1840

What if…Queen Victoria had been assassinated?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Treason: from Anne Boleyn to Lord Haw Haw. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893

From Oscar Wilde to David Irving: 9 landmark libel & defamation cases through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The vanishing inventor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, with his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, riding in an open carriage at Sarajevo shortly before their assassination on 28 June 1914

Franz Ferdinand“This mythologised murder did not trigger WW1”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm

Joyce Lee Malcolm on gun ownership in America“Why is the right to be armed such an emotional one for Americans? No police force can protect everyone, or even any one, all of the time”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A policeman searches an African-American man, 1970s

Why we should remember…Richard Nixon's war on drugs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Watergate at 50: the making of an American scandal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

US president Richard Nixon in 1970

After Watergate: the fallout of an American scandal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Elizabeth and Thomas Seymour (Photos by Getty and Alamy)

Did Thomas Seymour sexually abuse the teenage Princess Elizabeth?

Crime & punishment in Britain: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A customer shops for a pistol at Freddie Bear Sports sporting goods store in Tinley Park, Illinois

The historians’ view: what are the real issues in the US gun control debate?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, following their arrest by the FBI 1950. They were convicted of passing infomation to the Soviets and executed in 1953

The secrets and lies of Cold War spies

Corruption in the ancient world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scene of the Peterloo Massacre

Q&AWhy do we say "Read the Riot Act"?

What one duel can tell us about Jacobean England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prohibition: busting myths about the ban on booze. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Suspected witch Mary Sutton is “swum” in a Bedfordshire millpond in 1612, as shown in a contemporary illustration. (Picture by Getty Images)

Witchfinding: what drove the hunters’ cruel crusade and what methods did they use?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of Al Capone, in a suit, looking into the camera

Your guide to the Prohibition-era gangster Al Capone

The Duke stars Jim Broadment and Helen Mirren, pictured with Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington

The Duke: The real story of Kempton Bunton and the theft of Goya’s Wellington portrait

Witch hunters: cynical persecutors or misguided zealots?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

First photo of baby Charles Lindbergh Jr

Q&AWho was the Lindbergh baby?

Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby in season six of 'Peaky Blinders'

Peaky Blinders: The story so far, plus the real figures to expect in season 6

James Hamilton's 1880s painting 'The Massacre of Glencoe'.

Hell at Glencoe: what led to the massacre in the Scottish Highlands?

Britain’s only war crimes trial. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John Wilkes Booth flees the theatre after shooting US president Abraham Lincoln

Q&AWhy do we say ‘your name is mud’ – and what does it have to do with Abraham Lincoln?

A 19th-century lithograph showing a medieval criminal claiming sanctuary by placing his arm through the ring on a church door (Picture by Bridgman)

Sanctuary in medieval churches: how criminals found protection from capture and punishment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bloody Sunday: 50 years on. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Luke Waller

The Pentrich Rising: England's forgotten armed revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.