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David Bowie, 1987

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A portrait of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with five of their nine children, by Frederick Winterhalter. (Photo by © Historical Picture Archive/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: was their union a marriage of misery?

Illustration of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava during the Crimean War

Victorians and war: which conflicts were fought during the Victorian era?

Queen Victoria

The final days and death of Queen Victoria

A composite image of Joseph Stalin (left) and Adolf Hitler

Second World War

Hitler and Stalin’s utopian dreams

Mary, Queen of Scots

9 of the worst monarchs in history

Photo of statue of Leif Erikson

Leif Erikson’s voyage to Vinland

The Sutton Hoo excavations are the focus of a new film, 'The Dig'. Carey Mulligan stars as Edith Pretty, and Ralph Fiennes portrays Basil Brown

Second World War

The Dig: the real history of the remarkable Sutton Hoo excavation

Richard III

What if… Richard III had won at Bosworth?

Richard Nixon resigns

A brief history of presidential impeachment

The city Bhaktapur looming over the Kathmandu valley

The hippy trail: a pan-Asian journey through history

Extract from Domesday Book.

Your guide to the Domesday Book: the most important document in English history?

Muslim women embrace after Ramadan ends, 2012

“Does every generation have to prove itself in Britain?” Kavita Puri on the experiences of South Asians in Britain

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie in profile: facts about her life

Women queue for potatoes in a greengrocer's shop in London, c1945. (Photo by Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer/IWM via Getty Images)

Second World War

Saving food, saving lives: rationing in the Second World War