Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

The storming of Beziers

Medieval turning points.

Painting of Pope Callixtus II, the first Borgia pope, though it would be his nephew Rodrigo (later Pope Alexander VI) who would earn great infamy

Your guide to...the Borgias

Arnhem: the Battle for the Bridges, 1944.

Covid-19 saw the UK’s universities, such as the University of Glasgow (above), cancel in-person teaching. The logistics of teaching and studying during the pandemic are proving complex. (Photo by Dreamstime)

How Covid-19 is forcing universities to change

If you’re interested in learning about history at home, there are plenty of short courses available online on a variety of topics. (Photo by Getty Images)

How to become a history student at home.

Vivid experiences: a self-portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi, the Italian Baroque artist whose brilliant renderings of biblical and classical scenes earned her commissions from some of the most powerful figures in 17th century Europe. (Photo by Araldo de Luca/Corbis via Getty Images)

Artemisia Gentileschi: how pain powered the great 17th-century artist.

The African who transformed Anglo-Saxon England.

A Fool Rebuked by God, 14th-century psalter. (Photo by Heritage Arts/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

Medieval marginalia: exploring 'doodles' from the Middle Ages.

The Spanish Princess Part II. (Image by Starz)

The real history behind The Spanish Princess

The bloody rise of Augustus

Napoleon watches on as the fighting at Waterloo unfolds in this 1843 painting

What if…Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo.

A mother and her children amid the smoking rubble of their city in 1940. (Photo by Getty Images)

Hitler’s vengeance.

A sign of the devil or a miracle cure? How people felt about spiders in the Middle Ages.

Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville

History heroMichael Morpurgo chooses Krystyna Skarbek (1908–1952).

Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren

The marriages of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren: how the dynasty shaped Europe

Dag Hammarskjöld

The mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld: a Cold War killing?.

Illustration by Joey Guidone

The big question: has terrorism ever achieved its aims?.

An illustration depicting the deposition of the body of Edward the Confessor in the tomb at Westminster in 1066. (

Was the early medieval period a "golden age" for the elderly?.

Simon Schama photographed in Hauteville House, Guernsey (Photo by Oxford Films, Photographer Eddie Knox)

Simon Schama on the Romantics.

London during the Blitz - the systematic night-time bombing of the British by the Luftwaffe in 1940 - 1941. (Photo by Getty Images)

Rationing, school closures and 'Blitz spirit': how did people cope in WW2?.

Britain goes to war.

Rjukan Hydro Plant

Spying in WW2: how wartime espionage was just as dramatic as fiction.

A portrait of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler

Second World War

Why did WW2 happen?

WW2 surrender signed, 2 September 1945

Second World War

How and when did WW2 end?

A late 18th-century painting of British and French sailors going head-to-head at war

The uncommon lives of common sailors.

The Hundred Years’ War: everything you wanted to know.

Exclusive podcastDan Jones on the human stories of the crusades.

Selim I

The extraordinary life of Sultan Selim I.

Painting of Masons building a pillar in a church

General Early Modern

Your guide to...the Freemasons

What are Roman numerals, where do they come from and how do you read them?