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Historian Nichola Tallis

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“Margaret Beaufort wielded enormous power. She was a queen in all but name”: Nicola Tallis on the mother of the Tudors. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The footprint of Old Sarum cathedral

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ExploreOld Sarum: the regal and the rotten. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tutankhamun's blue and gold funerary mask

Ancient Egypt

Tutankhamun unmasked: 7 intriguing truths about the pharaoh and his treasures

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6 novels that captured life in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A contemporary portrait of scientist Ada Lovelace

Victorian

History heroKonnie Huq chooses Ada Lovelace (1815–52)

King John out hunting

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8 things you (probably) didn’t know about medieval elections. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Simon the cat

General Modern

10 top cats in history

A fruit and vegetable market, painted by Joachim Beuckelaer.

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A brief history of veganism in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of a 13th-century parliament, sitting under Edward I. The Good Parliament of 1376, during the reign of Edward III, sowed the seeds for discontent that was to come.

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The Good Parliament of 1376: Crown v Commons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1st May 1975: Three documents, for and against, published for the referendum on the Common Market

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Britain decides: the first European referendum. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

James VI and I depicted in Parliament, c1605

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Queen Elizabeth I’s ‘Golden Speech’ and 5 more key moments in the history of crown and parliament. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scores of people milled about the entrance to the Stock Exchange on 24 October 1929, as the market went through the greatest shake up in its history. It was a light tremor heralding the earthquake to come. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

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The Wall Street Crash: the day the bubble burst. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Extinction Rebellion take over Trafalgar Square, London, in protest on 16 October 2019. (Photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

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From William Wordsworth to Extinction Rebellion: a history of Britain's green activists. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Being invited to become a 'guest' of the Tower of London in medieval England meant, more often than not, that you would soon be food for the crows. (Image by Getty Images/RM Creative)

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10 historical haunted sites across Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen of hearts: When Catherine's husband Tsar Peter III alienated his people, they instead turned to his wife, and she was proclaimed the rightful ruler.

General Early Modern

Catherine the Great: your guide to the famed Empress of Russia

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5 Georgian ghost hoaxes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A visit to the Churchill War Rooms, London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gin Lane, a print issued in 1751 by painter and printmaker William Hogarth. It depicts the perceived evils of the consumption of gin. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Georgian

The 18th-century craze for gin

Inside the fort was a famous spring, St Helen’s Well, today Robin Hood’s Well. (© Bill Henderson)

Anglo-Saxon

Brunanburh: Where did the battle that saved England take place?

The Monteagle letter, which shares a warning about the Gunpowder Plot. (National Archives)

Stuart

In their own words: 6 of history’s most fascinating letters

Portrait of Marie Antoinette in deep mourning, while in prison

Georgian

The final days of Marie Antoinette

20th Century

The trial of Lady Chatterley’s Lover: how the 'obscene' book caused a moral storm

Margaret Thatcher surrounded by British soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment, during a surprise visit to the Falkland Islands, January 1983. Britain has "ceased to be a nation in retreat," declared the prime minister in the wake of the victory over Argentine forces.

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How the Falklands War fired up Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi.

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The WW2 obsession: why the world can't move on from 1945. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

20th Century

In pictures: Soviet cosmonauts and the birth of the space age

1651, Charles Prince of Wales (1630 - 1685) (later King Charles II of England) meets Sir Henry Lee near Oxford during the Civil War, while escaping after the Battle of Worcester.

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How Charles II put Britain back together after the Civil War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A cartoon from 1862 shows a pair 'garroters' attacking a victim. (Photo by The Cartoon Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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Gangs and knife-crime fears: how has Britain responded through history?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black and white portrait image of Cardinal John Henry Newman.

Victorian

Who was Cardinal John Henry Newman?

Giant of literature: A page from the 'Beowulf' manuscript. The story is fictional but some of the characters within it were real people, and others were believed to be the ancestors of Anglo-Saxon and Danish kings. (Photo by Alamy)

Anglo-Saxon

Beowulf: The Anglo-Saxons' action hero

Half-timbered medieval cottages, Water Street, Lavenham, Suffolk, England, (Photo by Getty Images)

Tudor

History explorerA wealth of history: Laversham, Sulfolk

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