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Middle Ages (1066 - 1484)

list item Domesday Book Go
list item Magna Carta Go
list item Rare image from an Abbreviatio of Domesday Go
list item Exchequer of Ireland at work Go
list item Thirteenth century tally sticks Go
list item 1360: Treaty of Calais Go
list item Old English recipe for ink Go
list item The first page printed in England Go


Tudors and Stuarts (1485 - 1714)

list item 1497: John Cabot's voyage to America Go
list item Rivalry of kings: France and England in 1527 Go
list item Henry VIII and the wealth of the Church Go
list item Catherine Howard loses her head Go
list item Great seal of Elizabeth I Go
list item Portraits of Elizabeth I Go
list item Drake and the Spanish Armada Go
list item Tudor wallpaper Go
list item Anglo-Spanish treaty signed 1605 Go
list item Confession of Guy Fawkes Go
list item Pocahontas and the settling of Virginia Go
list item Shakespeare's will Go
list item Trial of Charles I Go
list item The Black Death Go
list item Land deal with American chiefs Go


Eighteenth Century

list item Dick Turpin, highwayman Go
list item Royal Navy ships blockade New York Go
list item Cook's first voyage of discovery Go
list item American War of Independence Go
list item Mutiny on the Bounty Go


Nineteenth Century

list item The Lottery Go
list item Lord Nelson's funeral 1806 Go
list item Property left by a 'lunatic' Go
list item Jane Austen's will Go
list item 1851: The Great Exhibition Go
list item Queen Victoria's census return Go
list item Victorian fashions Go
list item Steam locomotives: The Rocket Go
list item Child prisoner, 1870 Go
list item Jack the Ripper Go
list item Channel tunnel: centuries of planning Go
list item Trials of Oscar Wilde Go
list item Census for Albert Square, East End, 1871 Go


Twentieth Century

list item Sinking of the Titanic Go
list item Wilfred Owen's World War One Service Go
list item Edward VIII gives up the throne Go
list item Adolf Hitler's fake passport Go
list item The Dambusters, 1943 Go
list item Windrush settlers arrive in Britain, 1948 Go