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“People have achieved all kinds of crazy things at the age of 18” | Alice Loxton on the teens who've changed British history

Helios driving a chariot

General History

Sun gods and goddesses16 solar deities from world history

8 August

An English fleet defeats the French at the battle of Sluys in 1340. By now, Edward III’s war machine was reaping the benefits of a system of national taxation, approved by parliament (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

How King John helped bring about a political miracle in medieval England

7 August

A warrior battling a dragon in Skyrim concept art.

Best Viking videogames for history enthusiasts in 2025

6 August

Senator Edward Kennedy leaves the Dukes County Courthouse in Edgartown, Mass

What was the Chappaquiddick incident?

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How to make sugar-free Tudor biscuits

2 August

5 things you (probably) didn't know about... late medieval England

An 18th-century depiction of the battle of Bosworth, the 1485 clash that saw Henry VII’s army defeat that of Richard III, allowing the Tudor pretender to claim the throne (Photo by incamerastock/Alamy Stock Photo)

The rise of Henry VII: how a life of cheating death prepared him for the throne as the first Tudor king

1 August

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Ruby Turner and Sister Rosetta Tharpe

My history heroRuby Turner chooses Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Beauty before durability: the interwar beginnings of fast fashion

A baby sits on a toilet and pulls toilet paper from a roll

General History

A brief history of the toilet: wiping, washing – plus, who invented the flush?

Josef Stalin: the paranoid dictator who forged the Soviet Union into a superpower

King Æthelstan shown in a manuscript dated to before 1399 (Photo by incamerastock/Alamy Stock Photo)

Æthelstan: why is writing a biography of one of England's greatest kings so difficult?

Portrait of Jacq Barnard.

My life in historyProject manager at the Sutton Hoo's Ship's Company

A bust of Roman emperor Vespasian, founder of the Flavian Dynasty.

‘I’m becoming a god!’ How unlikely emperor Vespasian restored Rome – and gave it its gladiatorial heart

A crusader army led by French king Louis IX clashes with Ayyubid forces at Mansurah in 1250. Two centuries of warfare across the Middle East “drew a torrent of often dangerous young men into the region”, writes Steve Tibble. (Photo by Getty Images)

Crusader criminals: why medieval knights went rogue in the Holy Land

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: how Gurdip Singh Chaggar's murder in 1976 sparked a youth movement