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Hilary Mantel, pictured in Oxford in 2017

Hilary Mantel remembered“She changed the way we think about history”.

General ancient history

Ancient history podcast episodes

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15 minutes of fameHannah Cusworth chooses Aina Forbes Bonetta

Paterson Joseph and Ignatius Sancho

My history heroPaterson Joseph chooses Ignatius Sancho.

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General History

Black British historyA timeline of key moments

Photo of the Jarrow March

The Jarrow marchThe lasting legacy of the 1936 protest

The election of Giorgia Meloni as Italy’s first female prime minister

The rise of Giorgia Meloni“It makes plain the strange way a dictator has retained a positive image in many sectors of Italian society”.

The Unesco world heritage site of Hadrian's Wall. (Photo by Getty Images)

New light on the end of Roman Britain.

Sara Forbes Bonetta (seated besides her husband James Davies was brought to England in the late 1840s by a Navy captain. Presented to Queen Victoria, she impressed the monarch so much that Victoria became her godmother

Black History MonthWhat is it, historians on its relevance, plus 7 articles you should read

The skeleton exhumed from beneath a Leicester car park in 2012. The remains contained features matching Tudor descriptions of Richard III, and injuries to the skull and body inflicted at the battle of Bosworth in 1485

Rediscovering Richard IIIThe story of how a lost king was found.

A missionary preaches to the Native Americans of Massachusetts, c1650. By now, colonists were imposing their values on the indigenous population, encouraging them to dress like the English – and worship the English God. (Photo by Ian Tyas/Keystone/Getty Images)

Britain's nuclear fearsHow has the UK prepared for Armageddon?.

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General History

Black British historyKey questions answered

Why we should remember...The pioneering use of ether.

Charles V of Spain depicted on a 16th-century gold coin

Kwasi Kwarteng"Wars are bloody expensive – so the only way nations can buy what they need is by printing their own money".

Coloured engraving of Malintzin

General Early Modern

15 minutes of fameCaroline Dodds Pennock chooses Malintzin

The Rosetta Stone is covered in three scripts, which allowed for the translation of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

Rosetta StoneWhat is it and why is it important?

The Rosetta Stone

The rivalry behind the translation of the Rosetta Stone.

Image of Empress Matilda

What if…Empress Matilda had defeated King Stephen?.

Adam Henson and Robert Bakewell

My history heroAdam Henson chooses Robert Bakewell.

The leader of the Luddites, 1812. Found in the collection of British Museum. Anonymous artist. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

5 of the worst years in British history

Benito Mussolini

Mussolini's willing followers? The Italians devoted to Fascism and the duce.

A loan transaction being recorded in a ledger, shown in a work by Marinus Van Reymerswaele

Medieval money tricks and the modern world.

Mussolini salutes in front of the statue of the Roman emperor Nerva, in the 1930s

How Italian dictator Benito Mussolini became the first face of fascism

Herbert Rowse ArmstrongInnocent solicitor or guilty murderer?.

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(L to R) Elizabeth I, Charles II and Edward VII

How to be a successorDo’s and don’ts for heirs to the throne from history.

British writer Hilary Mantel photographed at home

Hilary Mantel on the secrets of successful historical fiction.

Rosa Parks rides on a Montgomery bus

50 important historical events: from Sutton Hoo to Rosa Parks

Around 200,000 freed slaves, like this soldier, joined the Union military in the Civil Wa

The Emancipation ProclamationYour guide to Abraham Lincoln's proclamation

James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England and Ireland) and his young wife, Anna of Denmark

The honeymoon of James VI and Anna of Denmark.