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Why was King James VI and I obsessed with witch hunts?
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Margaret Beaufort: mother of the Tudors
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Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: everything you wanted to know
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Did the British royal family support slavery?
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“Elizabeth was certainly no feminist”: Tracy Borman on the Elizabethans
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Anne Boleyn: your guide to the life and death of Henry VIII’s second queen – plus 11 little-known facts
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Elizabeth I’s accession day celebrations
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James VI and I and his favourites: what were their relationships like?
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King James VI and I: your guide to the first Stuart monarch of England
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Your guide to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite Rebellion, plus 10 facts you might not know
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