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Portico entrance of Oxford's famous Ashmolean Museum. (Dreamstime)

History explorerThe history of British museums.

The Giralda tower and cathedral seen across the Plaza de la Alianza, Seville, Spain. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Seville, Spain

Travelling Mass set, c1535, consisting of a silver-gilt chalice; a paten (Communion plate) and a glass bottle for wine, with a leather box in which to carry them. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Henry VIII's savage Reformation

The operation

John Hunter and the horrors of 18th-century surgery.

A series of images depicting Victorian women wearing crinolines, c1860. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Stitching the fashions of the 19th century: who dressed the 19th-century elite?

8 remarkable historical events that happened in May

From dragons to unicorns: finding fantastic beasts in ancient history.

Armoured cars unloaded in Shanghai in 1927

China’s public image war.

Scandal, conspiracy and the affair of the poisons: inside the court of Louis XIV.

'Their Finest' and the British films that inspired the home front during the Second World War.

Veteran cars – a 1898 Benz and an early Panhard – outside Glover Brothers Cycle Makers, c1900. (Photo by National Motor Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How the Victorians ruined the world.

Verona skyline with river Adige, bridges, Santa Anastasia Church and Torre dei Lamberti or Lamberti Tower at dawn view from Castel San Pietro, Italy. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Verona, Italy

Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto, a PPP candidate (Pakistan People's Party), campaigning from the sun roof of a car. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)

My history hero: Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007).

Procession of Charles II between the Tower of London and Westminster on the eve of his coronation, 1661. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

1660: The year that changed everything.

A view of Hampton Court Palace, London. (Getty Images)

Simon Thurley on the architectural history of the Tudors.

From left: Fern Riddell, a cultural historian specialising in sex and suffrage; Janina Ramirez, a broadcaster and historian based at the University of Oxford; Joann Fletcher, a broadcaster and writer, and an Egyptologist at the University of York; Anna Whitelock, a historian of royal and early modern history, based at Royal Holloway, University of London. (Photography by Helen Atkinson)

What is it like to be a female historian in the 21st century?.

Demonstrators block the gates of the Greenham Common Airbase, tied together with string. The demonstrators were members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) group. (Getty Images)

The nuclear 1980s.

A group of women cycling along the beach at Newquay, c1923. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Choppers, burners and boneshakers: the rise of British cycling.

Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev looking disappointed frustrated

The 1986 Reykjavík Summit: when hopes for nuclear peace were dashed.

An indigenous Aymara woman selling herbs at La Paz's Witches' Market

ExploreLa Paz, Bolivia: the history of the turbulent city of peace.

Pamir Mountains - know as Bam-i-dunya, 'Roof of the World'

In the footsteps of Alexander Gardner, a Victorian adventurer who travelled to the Hindu Kush.

Armed Apache Warriors, Geronimo's Camp

The fight for the American west: how myth obscures reality.

Government troops patrol a village during the Salvadoran Civil War

The end of El Salvador's civil war.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Christopher de Bellaigue in conversation

The Islamic Enlightenment: Christopher de Bellaigue and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in conversation.

A still from 'Guerrilla', a new Sky Atlantic drama inspired by emergence of British Black Power. (Sky UK Limited)

'Guerrilla' and the real history of British Black Power

BBC History Magazine

In profile: the 2017 Wolfson History Prize shortlist

Who decided Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, should be executed?

Two members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps find another use for discarded helmets in France during the First World War. (Alamy)

Female Tommies: women in the First World War.

Spying on the king: when MI5 targeted Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.

First World War

In pictures: Zeppelin raids on First World War Britain