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Ye Olde Travel Guide: Paris 1802 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Norman Conquest . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England

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When did the practice of funeral rings begin/end and how widespread was it?

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A big day in history: Gilbert and Sullivan unveil ‘The Mikado’

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An 18th century village in Germany. Strict laws regulated the goods that each social class could buy. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Beware what you buy: the goods German citizens were forbidden to consume

A portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer from an early 15th-century manuscript of the poem ‘De Regimine Principum’ by Thomas Hoccleve. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The Library Chaucer and the idea of Englishness

A c15th-century vellum shows the Squire from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. For Adam Nicolson, the essence of the gentry was “government-through-networking”. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Stories of the gentry

Angela Burdett-Coutts, an English philanthropist who supported a wide variety of charitable causes assisting the church, the poor and the hungry. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images)

Philanthropy: the root of all good

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If I ran the country, I’d throw Halloween on the bonfire

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All history lies to us, but at least historical fiction admits it

The front page of the first edition of The Sun newspaper. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

A big day in history: The Sun first appeared on shelves in newsagents

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1492: The Year Our World Began

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