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1. Have we overlooked England’s local histories?

   Ian Mortimer guides Charlotte Vosper through the past 1,500 years of English history, viewed from the perspective of his own medieval home in Devon

2. Why the Nazis loved the Bayeux Tapestry

   In the final episode of his guide to the Bayeux Tapestry, Dr David Musgrove considers the long and surprising afterlife – which included brushes with Napoleon and Nazis

3. The mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry

   Why does the Bayeux Tapestry include an image of a man squatting naked? In the fifth episode of his guide, Dr David Musgrove explores the borders of the famous embroidery

4. Daily quiz: 22 September

   Test your history knowledge with our daily quiz – updated each morning at 7am UK time

5. D-Day could have ended in disaster – but one Scottish hero changed everything

   As Pressure, which dramatises meteorologists’ attempts to predict the weather on D-Day, storms into cinemas, Catherine Ross charts five moments when weather forecasts (or the lack of them) changed the course of history