Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

Bloody Sunday: 50 years on.

Deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, German officer Paul Schmidt and Adolf Hitler survey damage at Hitler's eastern front military headquarters, ‘the Wolf’s Lair’, hours after a failed bombing attempt by Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Second World War

Should we be glad the 1944 July Plot to kill Hitler failed?

Cold war mind games.

Munich: the real history behind the new film.

Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlain, in Munich – The Edge of War

Second World War

A martyr and a hero? How Munich – The Edge of War tries to soften Neville Chamberlain’s rotten reputation

Sudeten-Germans Salute the Arrival of Nazi Guards in Czechoslovakia, 1938

Czechoslovakia’s fate hangs in the balance: the build up to the Munich Conference of 1938.

Women of the Rothschild dynasty.

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

Queen Victoria’s spy network.

Illustration of King Louis IX.

A king of fire and light: Louis IX's tangled legacy.

Shining new light on medieval Europe.

A portrait of Elizabeth Stuart, painted during the reign of Charles I

Elizabeth Stuart: the treasonous portrait that touted Charles I's sister for the throne.

A murder mystery in 19th-century Dublin.

King George II of Great Britain

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

Trading and crusading in the Middle Ages.

Ancient Greek scientific thinking.

Neville Chamberlain holds aloft the famous piece of paper at Heston aerodrome on 30 September 1938. (Picture by Alamy)

Second World War

The Munich agreement: a battle with Hitler that almost brought down the government

Neville Chamberlain shows off the Anglo-German Declaration at Heston Aerodrome

Second World War

Q&APeace for our time: what was written on Neville Chamberlain's piece of paper?

Outbreak of dance mania

The medieval dancing plague: what caused people to dance themselves to death?

A depiction of the French and Indian War, with George Washington on horseback

A guide to the Seven Years’ War

Residents of Palermo, Sicily, line the streets to greet the American Sherman tanks after the town had surrendered to the Allies

The battle for Sicily: breaking into Fortress Europe.

Michael Wood on the Parthenon Sculptures"The case is unique: the sculptures are bound up with Greek identity".

History’s greatest mysteriesWhat caused the medieval ‘dancing plague’?.

Turning points1916: The long march to modernity.

The Spanish Armada which threatened England in July 1588. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Turning points1588: The Spanish Armada.

Part four in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1150–1199

Turning points1171: The English invasion of Ireland.

Thomas Kendrick: MI6 spymaster who helped win WW2.

St Columba. This Irish patron saint's influence on the Christian church was, and still is, felt much further afield

Medieval miracle worker: how St Columba transformed Christianity in Britain.

Fascism: everything you wanted to know.

Yugoslavia: the beginning of the end.