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Daniel Snowman meets the celebrated telly-don and historian of 17th-century Holland, 18th-century France and America, all of British history and much else besides.

Andrew Chugg pinpoints the Emperor’s long-lost tomb.

Museum director Duncan Robinson reintroduces the famous Cambridge museum that has undergone some major developments in recent months.

Michael Leech visits the city that is celebrating the anniversary of the marriage of Mary Tudor and the future Philip II of Spain, 450 years ago this month.

Valentine Fallan offers a new look at a once-derided source for the Norman Conquest.

Chris Wrigley reviews a book exploring the 250-year history of British trade unionism.

Geoff Quilley shows how the work of Hodges, official artist on Cook’s second voyage and subject of a major exhibition opening this month at the National Maritime Museum, sheds light on perceptions of the British Empire.

The world's longest railway was completed on 21 July 1904.

Alexander Wilkinson considers what the French made of the controversial royal who played a pivotal role in the French wars of religion, both as Queen of Scots and Queen of France.

Robert Hume investigates the first major railway disaster in Britain, which took the lives of over thirty people in a collision in North Wales.