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Princes in the TowerEpisode 8: A conclusion (of sorts). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 7: Survival theories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 6: The other suspects. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 5: Circumstantial evidence and strange behaviour. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 4: Examining the evidence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 3: The prime suspect. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 2: The timeline. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Princes in the TowerEpisode 1: The case. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Grigory Yefimovich Novykh, also known as Rasputin

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Dag Hammarskjöld

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It was the need for witnesses in divorce courts – ones who wouldn’t mind their names being linked to scandals, no less – that partly gave rise to female detectives. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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People gather around the Mona Lisa painting after its return in January 1914

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A 19th-century painting of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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A portrait of Thomas Cromwell.

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The Kray brothers

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Four Murder, Inc hitmen are questioned by detectives

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A photograph of Rudolph Hoess during his trial in Warsaw in 1947. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Rudolf Höss & the men behind the mass murder at Auschwitz

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Left: Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in German-occupied Poland, in June 1944. Between May and July that year, more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to the camp complex. Right: Prisoners at Dachau celebrate the liberation of the camp by US soldiers on 29 April 1945. The camp was used again after the war to house SS personnel awaiting trial, and then German refugees. (Photos by Getty Images and Alamy)

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Amy Robsart and the Earl of Leicester

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A police officer uses his baton on a protester in Glasgow, 1919

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Two girls are tried for witchcraft in a courtroom scene

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Abraham Lincoln (Photo by Library of Congress)

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People flee to boats on the River Thames to escape the Great Fire of London, September 1666.

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Henry Avery: the legendary 17th-century pirate. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wrecked buildings in Los Angeles' South Central district following 1992 riots

The 1992 LA riots

Medieval punishments, Toulouse, 14th century. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

How bloody was medieval life?

Saturday lecture: Medieval crime and violence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Protesters demonstrate against a US military base at Santo Stefano in 2005

Sardinia: the legacy of the notorious shepherd-bandits of the mountains. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.