Early comic panel illustration

England

The Duke stars Jim Broadment and Helen Mirren, pictured with Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington

The Duke: The real story of Kempton Bunton and the theft of Goya’s Wellington portrait

Old English: a quick guide. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A late 16th century portrait of Anne Boleyn (c.1500-1536)

Q&ADid Anne Boleyn have six fingers on one hand?

Sir Oswald Mosley taking the salute from female members of the BUF

Your guide to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists (BUF)

People visit the prehistoric monument Stonehenge in January 2022

Stonehenge: a historian’s guide to visiting the stones. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part two). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Philip II, king of Spain from 1556, seated with Queen Mary I of England. They married in 1554

When Mary met Philip: a Tudor queen in love

General prehistory

Explore8 little-known prehistoric sites in Britain

Your guide to Britain’s prehistoric stone circles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A panorama of the man-made Neolithic structure Silbury Hill in Wiltshire

ExploreSilbury Hill & Avebury, the site of Neolithic Britons. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photo of Stonehenge with plains in the background

General prehistory

Secrets of StonehengeWhen & how was it built?

An aerial photo of Stonehenge

Your guide to Stonehenge, plus 12 fascinating facts you might not know

Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby in season six of 'Peaky Blinders'

Peaky Blinders: The story so far, plus the real figures to expect in season 6

Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part one). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Children's author Beatrix Potter as a young woman, c1892

Why the real Beatrix Potter was more than her children’s tales. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lettice Knollys

A Tudor love triangle: Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley

A group of Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading newspapers at their club

Penelope J Corfield“The Georgian era was a time of experimentation and invention”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An oil on panel portrait of Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville: Edward IV’s controversial queen consort

Charles and Camilla, 1979

Charles and CamillaA history of their romance

A 19th-century lithograph showing a medieval criminal claiming sanctuary by placing his arm through the ring on a church door (Picture by Bridgman)

Sanctuary in medieval churches: how criminals found protection from capture and punishment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

London schoolboys on strike, Shoreditch, September 1911. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Schoolchildren on strike: when pupils demanded shorter hours. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Luke Waller

The Pentrich Rising: England's forgotten armed revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait showing Mary, Queen of Scots with her hand on her hip

Mary, Queen of Scots: your guide to her life and times

Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton, next to a Regency portrait of Kitty Kirkpatrick.

Inspiring Bridgerton: the real South Asian women in Regency-era England

The capture of the pirate Blackbeard, 1718. Painting by JLG Ferris. One of history’s most notorious pirates, Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach almost certainly had a West Country twang because he was born in Bristol in around 1680. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Q&ADid most English pirates really talk with a West Country accent?

How the Beatles were in tune with 60s Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alfred the Great “managed to ensure history’s enduring affection by making sure that he wrote it himself,” argues Max Adams. (Photo by Granger Historical Picture Archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Alfred the Great: "He was an excellent king, but that's not the whole story". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Plan of the island of Utopia, from Thomas More's work of the same name depicting an ideal state

Thomas More's Utopia – what lessons did it have for Tudor England?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King George II of Great Britain

George II: 8 facts about the British king and German elector

Vienna Plague Hospital, 1679. (Getty Images)

What were women's lives like during the 17th-century plague?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.