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Yesterday’s Papers

Founder of the WSPU, Emmeline Pankhurst, was certain that Emily

Graphic History

The site’s first cathedral is built by Mellitus, an East

The Extraordinary Tale of…

The English and Dutch were at war in 1667 –

THE WILD WEST

Thanks to a steady diet of Spaghetti Westerns and Hollywood

History Makers: Marco Polo

For Italian romance writer Rustichello da Pisa, being locked up

In Pictures: Victorian London

She reigned for almost 64 years, and her very name

Battlefield: Flodden

Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, was not a happy man

Great Adventures: the Cockleshell Heroes

Only when they were on a submarine, powering away from

Reel Story: Evita

Glamorous, passionate, charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious, Eva Perón, born María

Ask the Experts

Historian, genealogist and author of Mr Darcy’s Guide to Courtship

In a Nutshell

The Rosetta Stone is a large block of black granite,

Snapshots

No matter who the monarch of Britain is, they can

What Happened Next...

How Adolf Hitler quashed the last remnants of opposition, and

Need to Know

Some call it the Old West, some the Wild West

Timeline

Follow the frontier as it creeps, leaps and bounds across

How Wild Was the West?

Hollywood has done an excellent job of painting the Wild

GET HOOKED

Follow the 2,200-mile route, between the National Frontier Trails Museum

Top 10: Bizarre Festivals

The Noche de Rábanos is an annual radishcarving festival in

How Did They do That?

The steam engine may have its roots in antiquity, but

On our Radar

Want to enjoy more history? Our monthly guide to activities

How to Visit…

Throughout the medieval period, abbeys and monasteries dominated the religious,

Books

Picture the scene: you just dropped something this issue of

Welcome

For many of us who grew up in the 20th

Letters

Thanks for producing such a fine article on piracy (

A-Z of History

Felix Yusupov, husband of Tsar Nicholas II’s niece, led one