Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

The Huguenots vs France: who were the Huguenots and what did they believe?

Zwarte Piet: the history behind the Christmas controversy

Illustration showing Roman Saturnalia banquet. (Photo by Alamy)

Saturnalia: the origins of the debauched Roman 'Christmas'

US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, meeting during the Casablanca conference in 1943. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

Second World War

Churchill and D-Day: did the prime minister oppose the Normandy landings?

Chess players in the 14th century

Ancient board games: which ones did people play for fun in the past?.

The Trojan Horse – seen in the 2004 film Troy

How much of the legend of Troy is real?

Women in Greek myths.

A 14th-century illustration showing medieval butchery. (Photo by Prisma/UIG via Getty Images)

The medieval marketplace: a time traveller’s guide to shopping in the Middle Ages

Marble bust of Caligula

Caligula: murderous and depraved, or a victim of history?

German writer Hans Fallada (1893–1947), pictured in 1934 with his son Uli in a carriage in Carwitz, Mecklenburg. (Photo by Getty Images)

Germans who resisted the Nazis.

Second World War

'Real life battleships': the secret game that countered German U-boat attacks during WW2

Oswald, the many-headed medieval saint.

Has the EU been a success?.

Painting of the Field of Cloth of Gold (artist unknown) from around 1545

Your guide to...the Field of the Cloth of Gold

Emma Corrin as Diana, Princess of Wales and Josh O'Connor as Prince Charles in season 4 of ‘The Crown’

The Crown S4 E9 real history: Prince Charles’s ski avalanche accident and his failing marriage to Diana

Charles Dance as Lord Mountbatten in season 4 of 'The Crown'

The Crown S4 E1 real history: when Charles met Diana, and the death of Lord Mountbatten

War and society: a tangled relationship.

In pictures: 150 years of the British Red Cross.

Map of the universe, miniature from The Tales of Luqman, Arabic manuscript, 1583. (Photo by Getty Images)

Ingenious medieval science.

A portrait of Cnut holding a sceptre. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cnut: the great Dane.

From the British Isles to Italy and Spain: how the Normans reshaped Europe.

An RAF crew with their American Douglas Boston light bomber, circa 1943. (Photo by Getty Images)

Personal stories of the Second World War.

When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, huts designed to house about 30 people were found to be crammed with as many as 500. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Your guide to the Holocaust

Robert Rinder (right) in My Family, The Holocaust and Me

Growing up in the dark shadow of trauma: Robert Rinder on the legacy of Holocaust

The story of the Dambusters.

Illustration of the raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne

Slaves in the Viking Age: how prevalent were enslaved people in Viking societies?.

Inside the Viking mind.

Chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934) in her laboratory. She shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre for their work in radioactivity. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Marie Curie: the woman who stirred up science.

Lucy Worsley in Regency period costume

Lucy Worsley on royal history's biggest fibs.

Escaping Nazi-occupied Europe.