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Bonfire Night keeps the flames of division burning.
The doomed Scottish monarch has divided opinion ever since the days when she was forced off the throne.
Research on under-catalogued documents in Oxford sheds new light on one of history’s most influential books.
This year, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death has been marked by a flood of events around the world. But why did his exit cause so little public grief at the time, in and beyond the country of his birth?
To achieve independence, history says you should play a long game.
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