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Ye Olde Travel Guide: Samarkand 1404. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woodcut showing the Globe Theatre, one of London's most famous landmarks and the venue most closely associated with Shakespeare's plays. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Where history happened: Elizabethan drama. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From pop to politics, the ancient world is here to stay

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Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

Ye olde travel guide: Olympia 480 Bc. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction

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Luxury – the new ‘four letter word’

England and Wales: best of enemies?

Myths of the Pagan North: The Gods of the Norsemen

Finger painting

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Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City

Pride and Prejudice takes the top spot

Q&A: Were conscientious objectors in the Second World War given white feathers?

What did the Baby Boomers Ever do for Us?

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Bloodied Banners: Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield

England in miniature

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The Liberty Bell

English Houses 1300–1800

American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) who wrote under the pseudonym of Mark Twain, standing outside on a porch. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Mark Twain: America’s historical conscience?

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How to display the ancient world

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The Image of the World

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), pictured here c1895, is one of the most important figures in modern Russian literature. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: Anton Chekhov (1860–1904). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The English writer and radio broadcaster JB Priestley at home on the Isle of Wight, 1933. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

My history hero: JB Priestley (1894–1984). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Holy Face by Andrei Rublev. Tempera on wood, 14th century. Moscow, Russia. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

The mutation of Christianity

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New face for oldest museum

Sir Robert Peel Monument in Piccadilly Gardens, London. (Photo by P A Thompson via Getty Images)

Horrible history teaching with Terry Deary

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Many historians dislike the heritage industry out of sheer snobbery

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Energy policy: what can we learn from history?

Eco towns: what can we learn from history?