Early comic panel illustration

England

Globe Theatre illustration

Elizabethan

The Globe theatre fire of 1613: when Shakespeare’s playhouse burned down

Scene from the the Westminster Tournament Roll, commissioned by Henry VIII to document the lavish jousting tournament held to celebrate the birth of his son with Catherine of Aragon

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Dan Jones by the River Medway at Rochester in Kent. Jones is the presenter of 'Walking Britain’s Roman Roads', which aired on 1 July 2020 at 9pm on 5Select

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Amy Robsart and the Earl of Leicester

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Portrait of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–88) an English nobleman. Dated 16th century. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Elizabethan

Robert Dudley: Queen Elizabeth I's great love

A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)

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Crowds flock to the beach at Hastings in August 1938. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

20th Century

Summer holiday revolution: when were Britons first allowed to take paid holiday?

Bronze effigy of King Henry III on his tomb, Westminster Abbey, London (Photo by Alamy)

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Francis Drake portrait

Tudor

Francis Drake’s forgotten role in the English slave trade

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A police officer uses his baton on a protester in Glasgow, 1919

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Frank Gillard pictured during a 1944 rehearsal for battle reporting

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Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, 1521. This was an assembly of the Holy Roman Empire called by King Charles V in Heylshof Garden, Worms, to address Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Reformation. (Photo by The Print Collector via Getty Images)

Tudor

What was the Reformation?

A researcher examines the medieval Voynich Manuscript with a magnifying glass

Medieval

The Voynich Manuscript: who wrote the mystery medieval codex and what is it trying to tell us?

Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I.

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Equestrian portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer from the Ellesmere manuscript of his Canterbury Tales (14th century). "The world in which Chaucer moved was very outward-looking," says Marion Turner. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

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An engraving depicting a scene of chaos at Bethlem Royal Hospital

Victorian

Bethlem Royal Hospital: why did the infamous Bedlam asylum have such a fearsome reputation?

A scene from the Smithfield Decretals depicting a rabbit beheading a man. Rabbits seem to have a strange place in medieval imagery – and are depicted as having strangely violent tendencies. "It’s the sort of thing to give you nightmares," says David Musgrove. (Photo by Album/British Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

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King Edward II

Medieval

In profile: King Edward II

The British home has changed substantially in the past 300 years (Illustration by Ed Crooks)

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King John hunting on horseback

Plantagenet

Was King John really that bad? Yes!

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Annie Gray photographed at her home in East Anglia (Photo by Ian Farrell)

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Illustration of King John ripping up Magna Carta

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Henry III during the Second Barons' War

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Dissection of human cadaver by physicians

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General Modern

Why do brides wear white dresses? Plus the history behind 3 more wedding traditions

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