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From medieval monarchs to modern marvels, explore history and find out about some of the characters and events that changed the world.
- The Middle Ages
- The Norman Conquest, The feudal system and the Domesday Book, Thomas Becket and Henry II, The Crusades, King John and the Magna Carta, The Black Death, The Peasants' Revolt, Everyday life in the Middle Ages
- The Tudors and Stuarts
- Henry VIII, The Reformation, Elizabeth I, The Armada, The Gunpowder Plot, Charles I and the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell, The Plague, Everyday life in Tudor and Stuart times
- The industrial era
- The triangular slave trade, The Industrial Revolution, The Chartists, Everyday life in the industrial era
- The 20th century
- The campaign for women's suffrage, The First World War, Ireland in the 20th century, The Second World War, The Holocaust, Hiroshima, The civil rights movement in America, Everyday life in the 20th century
- The wider world
- The Roman Empire, The Islamic world in the Middle Ages, Modern China
- The UK through time
- The British Empire, The UK economy through time, UK government through time, Shaping the UK, Medicine through time, Movement and Settlement in the UK, Popular Protest through time and the UK, Religion through time in the UK, Conflict through time and the UK
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