Social history

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Great Train Robbery’s Ronnie Biggs dies

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Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved its Heritage

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Harry Houdini escape artist props to go under hammer

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The Black Death, the effects of which are pictured in this medieval miniature, took little more than seven years to wipe out around half of mankind. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)

History explorer: the catastrophe of the Black Death . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Illustration by Jonty Clark.

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Ballarat 1854 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Simon Thurley at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire. It was here, in 1771, that Richard Arkwright set up his first water-powered mills,

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Sport offered the two sides the perfect stage on which to get one over on the 'enemy', says Dominic Sandbrook. Pictured here is a queue for a football match between Arsenal and Dynamo Moscow. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Victorian vigour and a remarkable family . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Robert Cornelius poses for the camera in what is believed to be the world's first self-portrait produced by a photograph, 1839. (Robert Cornelius/Getty Images)

Self-portraits: How people took selfies in the past

Disability history

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Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One

A policeman feels the full force of a blast in this illustration – from the 7 June 1884 issue of 'The Illustrated Police News' – depicting a Fenian attack on Scotland Yard. The Fenians' dynamite campaign of the early 1880s provoked a radical response from the British government. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Victorian war on terror

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Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1715

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Video: Tracy Borman on the Witches of Belvoir

A painting depicting a 16th century wedding feast. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

The other Elizabethan England