Early comic panel illustration

England

Mona Baptiste, a Trinidad-born blues singer

“London is the place for me”: David Olusoga on the Windrush generation

English philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images)

My history hero: Angela Burdett-Coutts

Sunlight dapples a clearing in Sherwood Forest, which was an essential resource for peasants centuries before it became a tourist attraction (Photo by Alamy)

Where history happenedAncient forests

Keith Thomas. (Photo by Fran Monks)

Books interview with Keith Thomas: “The world was divided into the ‘civil’ and the ‘barbarous’”

Vera Brittain, who worked as a nurse during the First World War and went on to become one of the leading writers of the interwar years. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Love, loss and distorted memories

Grenfell Tower: from hope to tragedy

Harold Godwinson’s two eldest sons fled to Ireland after the Battle of Hastings, where they lived as guests of the King of Leinster. (Photo by Duncan1890 via Getty Images)

Q&AWhat happened to Harold Godwinson’s children after the Battle of Hastings?

Jane Seymour: Henry VIII’s favourite queen

Historian John Ashdown-Hill

Richard III historian John Ashdown-Hill dies

Bearded Victorian man. (Photo by Getty Images)

A brief history of beards

Where history happened: Georgian fossil hunting

Four police officers, members of the Bow Street Horse Patrol, pose for a photograph with a horse.

The rise of the Great British 'bobby': a brief history of Britain's police service

Street urchins in Lambeth, London, 19th century

Escaping the workhouse: the Victorian war on child poverty

Were the suffragettes terrorists?

Richard Burbage

Richard Burbage: the vanishing act of the star who outshone Shakespeare

A brief history of London tourism since 1800

8 of Britain’s best historical houses and gardens

Thomas Becket

The LibraryEngland’s forgotten civil war

Shakespeare’s best (or worst) villains

8 of Britain’s best battlefields

Shackles that were used to tether slaves, on display at the International Slavery Museum. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

History explorer: the British slave trade

Henry VIII “regarded his wars as the worthy successors of the great martial victories of England’s past”, says Steven Gunn. (Photo by PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

The LibraryTotal war in Tudor England

A crowd gathers to watch the witnesses arrive for the trial of John George Haigh, the 'acid bath murderer', in Lewes, East Sussex, July 1949. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

10 facts about crime on the home front in the Second World War

Elizabethan England’s relationship with the Islamic world

The Terracotta Warriors

In pictures: Diversity in nursing

Police hold back Mrs Lillian Bilocca on the quayside at Hull

The 1968 Triple Trawler Disaster and the women who fought for change

Elizabeth’s love rival

East End crime

What’s the real history behind ‘Britannia’?