Early comic panel illustration

England

Anne of Cleves House, East Sussex

Bernard Cornwell on his novels

The spies of Queen Elizabeth I

Bluestones, like these in the Preseli hills, were used to build Stonehenge. (Photo by Paula Connelly via Getty Images)

Britain’s buried secrets

Clare Priory, Suffolk

My history hero: Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)

A portrait of Henry VII in 1505. His claim to the throne was tenuous and he had to see off a posse of pretenders, yet he proved a canny and competent ruler, modernising the justice system and filling the crown’s coffers. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Henry VII: the survivor and stabiliser

Greek slavery, Victorian heroism and Dan Snow on cars

The Victorian telegraph and Dan Snow on his new series

The LibraryThe conquest of Wales and Mary I

Hylands House, Essex

The LibrarySummer holidays and Edward VI

The LibraryThe career of one of England's most well-known kings

The origins of the Tudors

Clean-up crews salvaging what they can from the ruins of buildings in Hornsey, a north London suburb, 1944. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Hitler's secret weapon

In 1830 a keeper at the Tower of London menagerie accidentally removed the barrier between a lion and two tigers. The animals were eventually prised apart, by which point the lion had been fatally wounded. (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Life with the lions: the Tower of London menagerie

The LibraryThe Duke of Wellington and Alfred the Great

A portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie), the grandson of James II and VII. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The LibraryWhere history happened: The Jacobites

Lyveden New Bield, Northamptonshire

Dover War Tunnels

St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury

News for the BBC's Domesday Project and the future of the National Archives

A 17th chart or map shows reefs and hazards to ships.

The notorious Captain Kidd

The A to Z of royal weddings with Tracy Borman

5 of the worst smells in medieval London

Westminster Abbey, London

Mystery and drama with the Romans and the Elizabethans

Geevor Tin Mine, Cornwall

The ruined site of Clonmacnoise in County Offaly, Ireland. (Getty Images)

Where history happened: the Wars of the Three Kingdoms part 2

A painting from a new exhibition at the V&A Museum in London. 'The Cult of Beauty' explores the 19th-century artistic movement of Aestheticism.

The cult of beauty