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The LibraryThe Holocaust on stage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

David Reynolds, Professor of international history at Christ’s College, Cambridge. (Photo by Alamy)

Issue 200 special: “History books will need to be objects of desire”

Writing history in the 21st century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bust of Homer c850 BC. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

“We are all Trojans...”: Homer’s poetic legacy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle for the US Constitution: how the 14th Amendment is under threat

BBC History Magazine

My favourite place: Kathmandu

Our Kind of Traitor: an interview with former MI6 intelligence officer Nicholas Anderson

The Brontë family.

The Brontës at war: how Charlotte and Branwell brought Waterloo into their drawing room. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton star in the 1967 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'. One of the playwright's most notorious couples, Katherine and Petruchio are far from a harmonious love match. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

Shakespeare’s 7 most notorious couples

Shakespeare’s London: playing a dangerous game. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Swan Theatre, Bankside, London, interior from drawing by Johannes de Witt. The Shakespearian theatre, erected c1593 on Bankside – could hold 3,000 spectators – typical of the time. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

At the playhouse: watching Shakespeare's plays in Elizabethan England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German astronomer Johannes Kepler c1620. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

The astronomer and the witch: Johannes Kepler’s fight to save his mother from execution

Student life and working class culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Revenant and the real Hugh Glass: how historically accurate is the film?

Verdun and the Renaissance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of HMS Intrepid, under the command of Irish explorer Captain Francis Leopold McClintock, trapped in pack ice in Baffin Bay, c1853. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

OpinionWhy the British love a plucky loser. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Beatles perform onstage at the Cavern Club, Liverpool in February 1961. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

History explorer: the swinging sixties. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In pictures: Frank Sinatra at 100

A canal in Venice, Italy

My favourite place: Venice, Italy

Witness Walls in West Yorkshire

The LibraryHistory explorer: The Brontës. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

9 strange facts about the history of apples. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Death of General Wolfe

The Georgian craze for popular history

The end of the Cold War and British culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In pictures: Egypt – faith after the pharaohs

“Studying history is the ultimate passport to the future”

Life of the Week: Ian Fleming

Patricia Simmons recording the speaking clock.

Q&AWho voiced the original speaking clock?

The Brontës and a revolutionary artist. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh

Simon Schama's portraits of a nation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Celts special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.