Early comic panel illustration

England

Michael Wood on the Peterloo photograph

Andrew Roberts (Photo by Helen Atkinson)

Secrets of war leadership

Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at Admiralty House, London

History heroMichael Heseltine chooses Harold Macmillan (1894–1986)

During his time in Oxford, Wilde fully embraced ‘aesthetic flair’: growing his hair long; dressing in flamboyant fashions and assuming exaggerated affectations. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

7 facts you (probably) didn’t know about Oscar Wilde

Henrietta Boyle

Fashion history: dressing to impress in the 17th century

A bust of Charlemagne

Charlemagne: creating the myth

William of Orange landing at Torbay, 1688

Your guide to...the Glorious Revolution

The 18th-century rabbit breeding hoax (Photo by Getty Images)

The woman who gave birth to rabbits

Portrait of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan), who disappeared in 1974 following a bloody homicide

The curious case of Lord Lucan + 10 other mysterious disappearances from history

Thomas Blood stealing the Crown Jewels

The day Thomas Blood stole the Crown Jewels

The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill

The death of Sir Winston Churchill and the top-secret plans for his funeral

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector

Royalists, beards and cowardice: are these the strangest taxes in history?

Princess Margaret wearing a fur coat

The Queen's "rebel sister": 13 facts about Princess Margaret

Scandalous Tudor marriages: 7 women who braved royal wrath by marrying for love

Edward VI

To kidnap a king: the foiled plot to abduct Edward VI

Richard III, Edward IV and George, Duke of Clarence

Blood brothers: Richard III's battle with his siblings

Portrait of Prince Albert

What killed Prince Albert?

Westminster Abbey, London

A brief history of Westminster Abbey

Rotten boroughs cartoon

9 general election curiosities through history

A family at the seaside in the 1960s.

In pictures: English life in the 1960s, photographed by Tony Ray-Jones

Edwardian hat pin head found on the Thames shore. (Photo by Bloomsbury)

Secrets of the river

Knole, a house on an epic scale that's now run by the National Trust.

ExploreKnole: the grandest of family homes

Nicola Tallis photographed by David Hampton in October 2019

Nicola Tallis on Margaret Beaufort, mother of the Tudors

Hallie Rubenhold photographed in London. "In the 19th century, being both poor and a woman was a terrible combination. The cards were stacked against them," she says. (Photography by Fran Monks)

Hallie Rubenhold: “To most people, the women killed by the Ripper are just corpses. I want to tell a different story”

The 1969 documentary was made amid a feeling that there was an increasing awareness of a need to ‘sell’ the monarchy to the people, writes historian Sarah Gristwood. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

‘Royal Family’: the fly-on-the-wall documentary the Palace doesn’t want you to see

The War of the Worlds. (Photo by BBC/© Mammoth Screen)

Days of future past: how the new BBC TV series The War of the Worlds reinvented the sci-fi classic

Actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was personally invited by Oscar Wilde to play the title role in the upcoming London premiere of his play, 'Salomé'.

6 of London theatre’s most notable historical scandals

A scene from 'They Shall Not Grow Old', showing how film director Peter Jackson digitally remastered footage of the First World War. (Photo courtesy of THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD/ WingNut Films/ Peter Jackson. Original black and white film © IWM)

"There was no feeling sorry for themselves": director Peter Jackson on the soldiers of the First World War

Marshal Foch and his accompaniment leaving Compiègne in order to inform the French government in Paris about the Armistice agreement with Germany. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

First World War

Where was the Armistice signed?

Timothée Chalamet as Prince Hal

“It’s hard to square Prince Hal’s pacifism with what we know about Henry V”: a historian’s review of The King