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An engraving of John Milton in 1670. By that time he’d been blind for nearly two decades – but continued to express strong views on religion and the monarchy in his writing (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

Long road to paradise: the life of John Milton and how he created his masterpiece, Paradise Lost. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

William Dalrymple (Photo by David Hartley/Shutterstock)

“Like ancient Greece, India is one of the seedbeds of civilisation” | William Dalrymple on putting India back at the centre of global history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Visitors promenade alongside a lake with Surrey Zoological Gardens in the background, 1844 (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Victorian zoosAnimal attraction in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Frozen Charlotte dolls: the Victorian Barbie

Imperial spectacle: inside Britain's 1924 'Empire Exhibition'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John Milton: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A hidden history of black civil rights

Eleanor Roosevelt: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft: the firebrand feminist thinker with a rule-breaking life

Chinese workers tend a tea plantation in a mid-19th-century lithograph. Importing leaves from China was expensive – until Scottish botanist Robert Fortune introduced the plants to India. (Photo by Getty Images)

Eastern promises: the long and troubled history of Britain's relations with China. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Viking trade, Titanic and Olympic rings: history behind the headlines. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How ancient India transformed the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women at Kappa Kappa Gamma and Gamma Phi Beta Houses of University of California at Los Angeles in 1952

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What is Greek life?

Norse god of war and All-father, Odin, next to Germanic princess Brunhild

General History

Fierce and furious: who are the most powerful gods of war throughout world history?

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

Gulbadan Begum: princess, explorer, author. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stealing the Mona Lisa. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Francis Drake: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Our long obsession with the end of the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

History's greatest cities: Mexico City. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A Painting of The Grand Canal in Venice

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Q&AThe Grand Tour: a rite of passage for Europe’s elite

Video podcastAncient Greek theatre: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Smash hits: 17th-century style. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Shakespeare, depicted in a later image based on a contemporary portrait

Race, love & money: 8 Shakespeare plays that reveal the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Graffiti's golden age: radicalism & romance in the 18th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A group of supposed witches being beaten in front of King James I and VI

Why was King James VI and I obsessed with witch hunts?

Tying the knot: 500 years of wedded bliss and marital misery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.