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Worshippers inside the Duke Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Surrey, listening to a service in 1954. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images)

The Library D-Day for God? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of a public hanging of a bandit. (Photo by: Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

Sin City: thievery, prostitution and murder in medieval London

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Larry Siedentrop photographed for BBC History Magazine. (Image by Geraint Lewis)

Books interview with Larry Siedentop: “What is distinctive about the west is that the organising social role is no longer the patriarchal family and instead the individual” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The history of cider: Sam Willis meets Richard Stone

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Revealed: how the Georgians taught us to diet 300 years ago

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Historian Miles Russell. (Photography by Philip Hartley for BBC History Magazine)

History explorer Extravagance in Roman Britain: a visit to Fishbourne Roman Palace . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pillage of Jerusalem

Crusading for God and gold

Daniele Manin proclaiming the Republic of Venice, 22 March 1848. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library/A. Dagli Orti/Bridgeman Images)

1848: the year of revolutions

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Author Linda Colley.

Acts of union and disunion . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Great Ulster Rally in Hyde Park, April 1914.

1914: Why the war caught Britain cold

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Solving the mystery of the Elephant Man?

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The aftermath of the Second World War . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Becca Thorne.

Deadly beasts of Tudor England

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The Black Death and Tudor adventurers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This detail from the Gundestrup Cauldron – a richly decorated silver vessel thought to date from the second-century BC – depicts a Celtic god or druid surrounded by beasts. (Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The genius of the Celts