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Historian Caroline Dodds Pennock (Photo by Ellie Grace)

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Caroline Dodds Pennock “Indigenous Americans were horrified by inequalities in European society”

Circa 1510, Babur Shah (Zahir ud-Din Muhammad, 1482 - 1530), first of the mughal emperors of India. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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15 minutes of fame Margaret MacMillan chooses Babur

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Coloured engraving of Malintzin

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The leader of the Luddites, 1812. Found in the collection of British Museum. Anonymous artist. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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Photo of Ginger Rogers

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Regé-Jean Page and Phoebe Dynevor meet for a dance in Bridgerton

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Q&A How did people learn to dance in Baroque and Regency times?

Suspected witch Mary Sutton is “swum” in a Bedfordshire millpond in 1612

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Witchfinding: what drove the hunters’ cruel crusade and what methods did they use?

Portrait of Maria Sibylla Merian, by Jacob Marrel, 1679 (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

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Maria Sibylla Merian: the artist who challenged the natural world

Nineteenth century engraving depicting raining cats and dogs

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Q&A Why do we say ‘raining cats and dogs’?

Colourful illustration of 12 historical figures's heads (Winston Churchill, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Thomas Cromwell, Richard III, Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, Anne Boleyn, William Marshal, Jane Austen, Hatshepsut, Gandhi and Catherine the Great) shown in a grid pattern.

Historical figures: 100+ of the most famous people through history – in chronological order

A axe stuck in a piece of wood

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Q&A Why do we say 'bury the hatchet'?

A mermaid combing her hair

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Tails from the deep: separating the real folklore of mermaids from Disney stories

Women carrying flags and scythes or beating drums - one has a child on her shoulders - march on the Palace of Versailles to protest to the king

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Women in the French Revolution: fighting for equality