Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

Striking workers carry banners through the streets of Petrograd (St Petersburg) at the start of the February Revolution that brought the fall of the Russian monarchy the next month. (Getty Images)

Russia’s revolutions: How 1917 shaped a century.

Great Court, British Museum, Bloomsbury, London. (Getty Images)

Heaven… on Earth.

Niall Ferguson. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Niall Ferguson on The Square and the Tower.

My favourite place: the Camargue, France

Historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes. (Channel 5)

Eight Days That Made Rome: behind the scenes with historian Bettany Hughes

British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Attlee’s secret war with Stalin.

Soviet submarines. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

When the world didn’t end.

The Prince of Wales loading a rifle in the Grenadiers, First World War, 1914. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Edward VIII: How war scarred the playboy prince.

The Ukrainian famine.

Italian writer Primo Levi sitting at a desk in his study. Turin, 1981. (Photo by Sergio del GrandeMondadori PortfolioMondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

My history hero: Primo Levi (1919–87).

Friends or enemies? Anglo-French relations.

Northern lights (aurora borealis) dances over an abandoned cabin in Tromsø, Northern Norway. (Photo by Hanneke Luijting via Getty Images)

My favourite place: Arctic Norway

Vaux-le-Vicomte: the inspiration for Louis XIV’s Versailles.

My favourite place: Florence

Sveti Georgi (St George) a Roman-era church is Sofia's oldest preserved building

ExploreSofia, Bulgaria: an emperor’s home from Rome.

Woodcut of a meal shared at a witches' Sabbath. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Ronald Hutton on the Witch.

Edward the Black Prince receiving from his father, King Edward III, the conquered provinces of France gained during the Hundred Years' War. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Black Prince: a true prince of darkness?.

Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), 1797. Artist: Abbott, Lemuel Francis (1760-1802)

My history hero: Horatio Nelson (1758–1805).

Hannibal’s war elephants are defeated at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. (AKG)

How Hannibal beat the Alps but couldn't beat Rome.

Dunkirk: 6 big questions on a remarkable rescue mission.

Portrait depicting Mary, Queen of Scots.

History quiz - surgeons and Mary, Queen of Scots.

Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Rivoli

Napoleon Bonaparte's greatest triumphs and disasters

Test pilot Melitta Schiller (right), Berlin, June 1943. (Photo by DRK/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The women who flew for Hitler: an interview with Clare Mulley.

My history heroNick Knowles chooses Julius Caesar (100–44 BC).

An Iranian Jewish woman walks past the graves of Polish Jews who died in Iran during and after the Second World War

The LibraryThe incredible tale of the WW2 Poles who fought back.

Ross Poldark travels to Republican France in the latest episode of the BBC drama. France was a 'brutal and dangerous' place to be at the time, says historian Hannah Greig. (BBC/Mammoth Screen)

The real history behind 'Poldark' series three: episode three

The USS Liberty arriving for repairs following the attack by Israeli warplanes and motor torpedo boats

Why did Israel attack the USS Liberty?.

Benito Mussolini with members of the Black shirt Legion

The thorns in Mussolini’s side: the anti-Fascists who opposed the Italian regime.

What happened when the Rolling Stones rocked Warsaw?.

John Buckley and James Holland next to a fighter plane at the Imperial Museum, London

Second World War

The War in the West: James Holland in conversation