Early comic panel illustration

England

The fine rolls of King Henry III

A historical image from the iron and steel industry in Teeside

Industrial revolution

175 years of iron and steel

8 reasons to visit historic Chelsea

England and Wales: best of enemies?

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Ruby Sparks: the smash-and-grab gangster

John Leland: The man who saved medieval knowledge

A pregnant woman receives a piece of beef

"A taste for husbands' buttocks": the bizarre history of pregnancy cravings

England in miniature

Visit historic Lichfield

King John and the French invasion of England

Where history happened: Dunkirk

Charles Théveneau de Morande: an 18th-century French spy in London

A portrait of Charles II wearing the robes of the Order of the Garter. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Charles II: the people’s prince

Where the Bosworth battle really happened and a detailed look at rationing

The battle of Bosworth site. (Photo by Darren Walker/Dreamstime)

The LibraryBosworth: did gunpowder win the day?

Did Henry VIII love his last wife Katherine Parr?

A helmet marks a trail over fields from the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, 2013. The site is close to the spot where the battle of Bosworth took place in 1485, and the place where King Richard III was killed. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Bosworth: the race to find the battlefield

Boar badge of Richard III discovered in Bosworth Field. (Photo by Creative Commons)

Bosworth battle site: have we discovered where Richard III died?

Cromwell's words, Richard's crusades and the 1930s

The LibraryThe private lives of the British and the cruelty of Henry V

The LibraryVictoria's ascension and the Third Reich

9 reasons to visit Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

Inside Pompeii and a date with Elizabeth I

The LibraryThomas Becket and 16th-century swimming

The Industrial Revolution is revisited and Big Ben turns 150

Recreating a Victorian farm and the life of Captain Cook

Thomas Paine on both sides of the Atlantic and the plight of the suffragettes

A Nazi serial killer and a Tudor gentleman

Hampton Court and the Amritsar massacre