Early comic panel illustration

England

History quiz - Queens of England

Picture of Chrysippus of Soli

Q&AHas anyone ever died of laughter?

Q&AWhy do we say 'saved by the bell'?

Photo of cherry bakewells

Q&AIs the Bakewell tart really from Bakewell?

Trees and snow. Photo taken by British photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews as part of her series focussing on the locations at which individuals were shot during the First World War.

Shot at dawn: the First World War soldiers executed for desertion and cowardice

King Alfred The Great's statue designed by Hamo Thornycroft and erected in 1899 stands at the eastern end of the Broadway in Winchester, Hampshire, England. (Photo by Tony Baggett/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AHow many English kings were known as ‘the Great’?

The Stygian Lake in the Fifth Circle of Hell from from Dante’s epic poem 'The Inferno'. The phrase "Paint the town red" may originate from the sentence in the poem "we are they who painted the world scarlet with sins". (Photo by Getty Images)

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Paint the town red’?

Portrait of Henry VIII

Q&AWhich of Henry VIII's wives was his best match?

The princes in the Tower

Did Richard III murder the princes in the Tower? You debate

Tracy Borman's Tudor quiz

Portrait of Miranda Kaufmann. (Image by Jeni Nott)

History explorer: Africans in Tudor and Stuart Britain

The Palace of Westminster

Q&AWhy do we call the British government ‘Whitehall’?

British film director Alfred Hitchcock perched on either arm in a promotional still for his film, 'The Birds', c1963. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

My history hero: Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)

Photo of Mount Grace Priory

Q&Ahttps://www.historyextra.com/period/what-was-a-charterhouse/

Q&AAre there any rulers of England that don’t appear on the usual lists?

Photo of Clifford Tower in York

Q&AWhat was the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Photo of Lincoln Cathedral

Q&AWhat overtook the Great Pyramid of Giza as the tallest manmade structure?

A depiction of the battle of Naseby

Did Roundheads and Cavaliers really dress so differently?

18th-century snapshots of Windsor Castle

Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Alfred the Great: do we overplay his 'greatness'?

The princes in the Tower: why was their fate never explained?

Merchants and lower-ranking gentlemen often put pen to paper themselves, but wealthy men and gentlewomen were more likely to employ a scribe. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How to send a letter in medieval England

Flodden 1513: the biggest ever Anglo-Scottish battle

A fresh look at Edward III

The LibraryThe downfall of Mary, Queen of Scots and a British civil rights struggle

Jackfield Tile Museum, Telford

The National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire

Smithills Hall, Bolton

A Victorian front cover of Lindisfarne Gospels.

The Lindisfarne Gospels

Erddig, Wrexham