Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

A portrait of Lady Emma Hamilton

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Nelson's sensational mistress: how Emma Hamilton took Europe by storm. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

German troops on horseback cross a bridge during the Poland campaign

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The brutal blitzkrieg: the 1939 invasion of Poland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John F Kennedy with US Army officials during the Cuban missile crisis

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“We are eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked”: how the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prince Charles with his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten at Windsor

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Why was Lord Mountbatten, Prince Charles’s great-uncle, assassinated?

Bust of Lorenzo de' Medici

Renaissance

Lorenzo the MagnificentThe astounding life of the ‘delightful tyrant’ of Renaissance Florence

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Vikings and Franks. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pompeii: a remarkable window into ancient Roman life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Before Chernobyl: the secrets that paved the way for disaster. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne Boleyn, second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII

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Anne Boleyn's youth: how her years on the continent made her a match for Henry VIII. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'The Journey of the Magi' by Benozzo Gozzoli, commissioned by Piero the Gouty for the Palazzo Medici Riccardi. It features his son Lorenzo, who would become known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, as one of the three kings

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“They were on a level with today’s billionaires” – your guide to the Medici: bankers to the Pope, rulers of Florence, patrons of the Renaissance

A phantasmagoria by Belgian entertainer Etienne-Gaspard Robert, whose stage name was Etienne Robertson, 1797. (Photo by Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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Phantasmagoria: creating the ‘ghosts’ of the Enlightenment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Byzantines and a flamethrower

General ancient history

Q&AWhat was Greek fire?

Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I

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Monarchs, fascists & communists: Romania’s modern history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Early Medieval Britain: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Robespierre’s brutal downfall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne of Denmark, wife of James I of England

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Anne of Denmark: a killer queen?

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Building utopia after WW1. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Ottoman empire: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Portraits, power and royal wigs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Meeting in Tenochtitlan between Hernan Cortes

Tudor

Two worlds collide: Spanish conquistadors and Aztecs

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Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, on historical fiction. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Emma Dabiri"William Cuffay's story is more relevant now than ever". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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George II: reassessing a much-forgotten monarch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A hard-fought history of trespass. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Green Knight shows his severed – and still talking – head to King Arthur in this illustration of the beginning of the 14th century legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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“A eulogy to the cult of chivalry”: what can Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tell us about Edward III and the Hundred Years’ War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soldiers of the Third Reich surround a huge bonfire during a winter solstice festival in December 1936. The Nazis attempted to use elements of pagan beliefs to promote a Germanic ‘national religiosity’. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Witches, werewolves and vampires: the Nazi's quest for the supernatural

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