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US president Richard Nixon in 1970

After Watergate: the fallout of an American scandal.

Victoria Drummond, Britain's first female marine engineer. Also seen is her ancestral home, Megginch Castle; a Second World War Allied convoy; Mount Etna, which she encountered on one voyage; and a Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea, similar to the one that Drummond received in 1941

Victoria Drummond: trailblazing ship's engineer and war hero.

Bernstein and Woodward, the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal

Your guide to the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon

Why we should remember…Charles Babbage's Difference Engine

Lucy Worsley on three extraordinary livesThe survivor, the 'incurable' and the scapegoat.

Photo of Richard Nixon at a rally in 1968

Richard Nixon: the rise and fall of an American president.

Elizabeth Gaskell: a voice of the Victorians.

A woodcut of the brain from Andreas Vesalius’s groundbreaking 1543 treatise On the Fabric of the Human Body

The Elizabethans' complex relationship with mental wellbeing.

1842 self-portrait of Sarah Biffin

The armless artist who wowed Queen Victoria.

A stained glass portrait of Dr Samuel Johnson in 17 Gough Square, London Inns court c1989.

"A useful time-capsule of Georgian life": Samuel Johnson and his remarkable dictionary.

Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II in 2006 film 'The Queen'

Screen QueenElizabeth II on film

View of Windsor Castle's East Terrace

Fit for a queenElizabeth II's royal residences.

Buzz Aldrin salutes the US flag during the 1969 lunar landing

How has the world changed during the reign of Elizabeth II?.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip mark the diamond jubilee in 2012 by watching the Jubilee River Pageant, where a seven-mile flotilla sails past them (Photo by Eddie Mullholland - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

From silver to platinum: a history of Queen Elizabeth II's jubilees.

Queen Elizabeth II, in March 2022 - the year of her platinum jubilee (Photo by Getty Images)

Britain's golden jubilees: from George III to Elizabeth II.

A painting of Jean Thurel, a French soldier whose life spanned three centuries

Jean Thurel: the oldest soldier in history?

Bronze figure of Sulis, the Celtic goddess associated with medicine, fertility and healing. (Image by Getty Images)

Religion in Roman Britain: spreading the word of the gods.

Max Schreck took the title role in the 1922 German silent film 'Nosferatu', inspired by Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'. The film enjoys a cult following. (Photo by ullstein picture / ullstein picture via Getty Images)

“Ghoul-like beyond nightmare dream, they were the living dead”: belief in Vampires through history.

A painting of Lisbon depicts conspicuous displays of Portuguese imperial wealth and power – including enslaved African people

How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe

A customer shops for a pistol at Freddie Bear Sports sporting goods store in Tinley Park, Illinois

The historians’ view: what are the real issues in the US gun control debate?.

Persian courtiers in the throne room at Persepolis, as depicted in a relief detail.

Persepolis: the creation of the Persian empire’s foremost citadel.

Jack Lowden as Siegfried Sassoon in Terence Davies’ feature film Benediction.

First World War

Benediction: a case of Sassoon the man v Sassoon the legend

A scene from a relief at Persepolis, ancient Persia’s magnificent ceremonial capital

The Persians: empire of the greats.

First World War soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon In uniform

First World War

Poetry and protestWW1 poet Siegfried Sassoon

The effigy of King John on his tomb in Worcester Cathedral

Your guide to King John, the monarch who issued Magna Carta

A lodger disputes his bill with his landlady in this 1812 print by Thomas Rowlandson

What was it like being a renter in Georgian London?.

A drawing depicting a German monoplane dropping bombs on Paris during the First World War

First World War

Creating fake Paris: how one man built a mock city to fool WW1 German bombers

The Great Seal of the Commonwealth of England

The Interregnum: Britain's republican decade.

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, at dusk

9 places where British astronomy flourished.

Portrait of James, Duke of Monmouth, the 36-year-old illegitimate son of Charles II. (Photo by Alamy)

England's greatest royal rebel: why the Duke of Monmouth was a 17th-century hero.