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  1. 14 minutes ago

    Why, despite the brutal suppression of British revolts against rule, did the empire's writers portray rebels like in a positive light?

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  2. 2 hours ago

    “In the long run the did get their way…”

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  3. 3 hours ago

    Should museums charge entry fees? (We may print comments)

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  4. 4 hours ago

    Adolf “wasn’t a madman, and he hypnotised no one”…

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  5. 5 hours ago

    King Charles I paintings reunited for first time thanks to help of Prince Charles (via )

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  6. 5 hours ago

    Britain under attack

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  7. 6 hours ago

    Franklin D Roosevelt was born in 1882

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  8. 6 hours ago

    Face of 9,000-year-old teenage girl recreated by scientists (via )

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  9. 7 hours ago

    On our latest , historian shares her discoveries about the Cage, a clandestine British interrogation centre

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  10. 7 hours ago

    : the first truly nationwide political movement

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  11. 8 hours ago

    The dark charisma of Adolf , who became chancellor of Germany in 1933

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  12. 18 hours ago

    History Explorer: The decline of

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  13. 21 hours ago

    “ was torn between her passionate desire to be a perfect ‘Victorian’ wife to Albert – an angel in the house, all sweetness and light – and her Hanoverian inheritance…”

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  14. 24 hours ago

    Margaret Beaufort: mother of the

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  15. Jan 29

    “George III, the so-called ‘mad king’, was incarcerated at during some of the episodes of mental illness that plagued much of his adult life…”

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  16. Jan 29

    “Behind the closed doors of the private apartments, was often irritable and moody. She bitterly resented what she called ‘the shadow side of marriage’, meaning pregnancy and childbirth…”

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  17. Jan 29

    : creating the myth

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  18. Jan 29

    : explores the inner workings of a British interrogation centre during the Second World War

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  19. Jan 29

    We asked 12 historians to nominate alternative moments in the past that they consider to be great leaps for mankind

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  20. Jan 29

    George III, the so-called ‘mad king’, died in 1820…

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