Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

Juliet Stevenson as Emma of Normandy in BBC drama King and Conqueror (Photo via BBC)

Emma of Normandy: not just a two-time queen consort of England

A photo of a group of pyramids against a clear blue sky.

General ancient history

Wanderlust: Bettany Hughes on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

A woman dressed in a grey top and a green and orange bandana holds a black and white photograph of a young man against her chin. She stands in front of a plain, yellow wall

The Srebrenica massacre: the worst atrocity committed on European soil since the Second World War

A visitor looks at the Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry is finally coming home to Britain – and you can see it next year

Newgrange, a prehistoric monument in the Boyne Valley of eastern Ireland

General ancient history

Were ancient Ireland’s ‘incestuous elites’ just a myth? A tomb older than Stonehenge has new answers

A women with a shocked face next to a calendar with the date of Friday the 13th

Q&AWhy is Friday 13th unlucky?

British troops land in Normandy on 6 June 1944. D-Day, and the complex operations that followed, would not have been possible without Allied sailors (Photo by Photo 12/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The seaborne invasion: why we must remember the forgotten heroes of D-Day and the battle for Normandy

A black and white image of a man, a woman, two children and a dog huddled around a cauldron

Who was to blame for the Irish famine?

VE Day revellers blowing party trumpets

Second World War

"The best day of my life"A history of VE Day street parties

Pope Franics waves to the crowd from a wheelchair

General History

How are popes elected? Here's what happens after a pope dies

The first ‘catastrophic’ Dunkirk: why the British Army fled to the sea in a deadly 19th-century retreat

An ancient bas-relief from Capri depicts Tiberius – the second Roman emperor – and his lover. His scandalous reputation owes much to the work of Suetonius.

Monsters of Rome: do emperors such as Nero and Caligula deserve their reputations?

The assassination of Julius Caesar on the 'Ides of March'.

Q&AWhy do we need to beware the Ides of March?

Gilles de Rais, accused of murdering at least 140 children in 15th-century France

Was Gilles de Rais really history’s first recorded serial killer?

The rise of the Nazis and the importance of heeding warnings

England’s forgotten medieval hero: how John, Duke of Bedford carried on Henry V's fight

An illustration of the future King Edward VI of England with his whipping boy (Photo by Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo)

“Literally whipped”: the boys who took the beatings meant for royal bottoms

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo: the Renaissance polymath who transformed Western art

Maria Theresa

General Early Modern

The incredible Habsburg empress you’ve never heard of: who was Maria Theresa?

The Holocaust | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture

The Fall of the Titans, 1588-90, painting by Cornelis van Haarlem (Photo by PHAS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

When gods go to war: what was the Titanomachy of Greek mythology?

Nazis in the 1930s | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture

Adolf Hitler – at the time chancellor of Austria – is saluted by the crowds as he makes his way to the great parade of troops in Vienna, Austria, March 1938. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

Timeline: the rise and fall of the Third Reich

“The reverberations lasted for generations” | Matthew Gabriele and David M Perry on the civil war of Charlemagne's grandsons

The palace of Kublai Khan’s son is illustrated in a 15th-century manuscript of the Travels of Marco Polo. Despite such vivid depictions, no reference to the Venetian merchant has ever been found in Chinese sources.

Do The Travels of Marco Polo belong in the non-fiction section, or fantasy?

A hill to die on: why the Allies almost failed in the battle of Monte Cassino in WW2

A spiritual swastika on a lotus background.

Second World War

Why did Hitler choose the swastika as a Nazi symbol?

A man stands on a platform in front of a crowd

Second World War

Why Schindler’s List remains relevant decades on

The ancient Roman goddess Venus with the gods Vulcan and Cupid, in a painting by Italian artist Sebastiano Ricci (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Roman gods and goddesses: 17 of the most important deities of ancient Rome

Jack O'Connell as Paddy Mayne in SAS Rogue Heroes season 2

Second World War

SAS Rogue Heroes season 2 preview: "They’re very much thumbing their noses at authority"