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In his new series, David Dimbleby explores the power and wealth of the British monarchy – and its viability

If she had given the monarch a male heir, the crowns of England and Scotland might never have been united

The Bohemian King Wenceslas really was good, but his reward for gracious piety was not, discovers Ian Morton

I had watched Richard III meet a bloody end at Bosworth, come face to face with a plague victim, stood in the shadow of a mighty trebuchet, and been put on trial for my life. And it was barely lunchti

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

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