Kings and queens

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Everything you know about 17th-century London is wrong

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History quiz – spacewalks, battles and Eleanor of Aquitaine . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In the central image, leading Fifth Monarchists are executed on 19 January 1661 following the bloody failure of their uprising. Their leader, Thomas Venner, was hanged, drawn and quartered. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

Soldiers of the Apocalypse

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On the trail of the Yorks: 8 places associated with Richard III’s family

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Two King Edwards . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tony Blair asks permission of Queen Elizabeth II to form a government

Elizabeth II and her prime ministers

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Tudor monarchs and a medieval civil war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Anne Boleyn

Did Eustace Chapuys really despise Anne Boleyn?

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PTC for Six Queens of Henry VIII
Kentwell Hall, Long Melford, Sudbury CO10 9BA

Suzannah Lipscomb & Dan Jones discuss Henry VIII’s final two wives: Catherine Howard & Katherine Parr

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PTC for Six Queens of Henry VIII
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Dan Jones and Suzannah Lipscomb discuss Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves

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A brief history of Offa’s Dyke

Elizabeth I of England

Personal politics in Elizabeth I’s court

A marble bust of the Emperor Hadrian who ruled from AD 117 to 138

Hadrian’s travels

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Catherine Howard: The death of innocence

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Charles II entering London in May 1660 following the restoration of the monarchy. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

Clare Jackson "Charles II had to appeal to public opinion more than his predecessors did" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.