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Prehistory
Prehistory

Ancient

Artist's reconstruction of Pagans Hill Roman Temple, Somerset
Roman Britain
Howard Carter and an Egyptian assistant examine the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
Roman Empire

Medieval

Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire
AngloSaxon
Anglo-Saxon
Vikings
Vikings
Norman
Norman
Crusades
Matthew Paris
Angevin
Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire
Hundred Years War
Hundred Years War
Wars of the Roses
Wars of the Roses

Early Modern

Tudor
Tudor
Renaissance
Renaissance
French Revolution
French Revolution
Reformation
Reformation
Elizabethan
Elizabethan
Stuarts
Stuart
English Civil War
English Civil War
Ancien Regime
Ancien Regime
Glorious Revolution
Glorious Revolution
Georgian
Georgian
American Revolution
American Revolution
Enlightenment
Enlightenment

Modern

Imperialism
Imperialism
French Revolution
French Revolution
Napoleon
Napoleonic Era
Victorian
Victorian
Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution
American Civil War
American Civil War

20th Century

Edwardian
Edwardian
Soviet Union
Soviet Union
First World War
First World War
Interwar
Interwar period
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War
Adolf Hitler
Third Reich
Second World War
Cold War
Cold War

Secret World of the Maya
Arabia and India, from the Miller Atlas, Portugal, c.1519.
The First Global Empire
German soldiers talk to a Muslim woman in Mostar, Herzegovina, 1944.
Muslims in Hitler's War
Reluctant Regicides
The Crusades: A Complete History
‘The Murder of Richard Hunne’ in a woodcut from a 16th-century edition of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments.
Death at St Paul's