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Terry Deary's books have made history popular with children by concentrating on the more gruesome aspects of the past - and the books have now been adapted for BBC One and the CBBC channel.
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500 years after Henry VIII took to the throne, watch clips about his reign in the BBC Learning Zone. Here, Siobhan Redmond looks at his treatment of Mary, Queen of Scots.
BBC Four offers you another chance to catch the hugely popular series about a group of historians who attempt to operate a Shropshire farm using only Victorian methods.
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