But above all it is the glimpses of humanity inside the early House of Windsor that infuse history with drama.
The French Open at the iconic Roland Garros stadium is a competition rich in history and drama, and 2010 is set to be no different.
Tian Yuan Tan of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London is a specialist in the history of Chinese drama.
There truly is a history of toil and drama behind every athlete.
Children's favourite Teletubbies won the best pre-school category and the best schools' factual award went to the drama documentary History File: Nazi Germany.
By inviting the comparison, he clearly hopes to cast himself as a latter-day heir, with all the attending aura of drama and history.
There was a measure to the man in the hooded coat, old stooped body, face framed in monkish cloth, a history, a faded drama.
This generational tension is not easily resolved, but watching history unfold even through a television drama can help spark a richer dialogue.
Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History honors a new play or musical that explores the United States' past and deals with great issues of the day.
Doubters for the most part are big fans of the medieval warm period, and see in the climate scientists' arguments an attempt to rewrite history so as to maximise the drama of today's warming and minimise the possibility that natural variation might explain the 20th-century record.
Sunday night, though, the History channel had the highest-rated scripted drama on cable for the year, for the beginning of a story in which only one main character rises from the dead, and that not until nearly the end.
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The drama of the biggest Ponzi scheme in history will continue long past the second-anniversary of its exposure.
Furthermore, recent history suggests that Washington likes to engage in last minute drama before agreeing on temporary solutions.
While the drama unfolds, you are interestingly briefed on the history and the ins and outs of tea and tea plantations.
Yet what is the Apple story today was the AOL story before and is a drama that has played out back into the dim history of stocks and shares.
Because it was only the third film in Sundance history to win both the jury prize and the audience prize for best drama at the January festival, a rare Sundance feat.
Wembley has seen many glorious occasions and historical landmarks in its 77-year history - but this would not have been remembered as one of them except for the drama that unfolded behind the scenes after the final whistle.
They are World War One drama Parade's End, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, police corruption drama, Line of Duty and The Hollow Crown, a series of adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays.
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