Painting of a European marketplace

Europe

An illustration of the compound microscope used by British inventor and microbiologist Robert Hooke

An experimental society

Lewis Chessmen found on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, probably made in Norway, about AD 1150-1200. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

The LibraryObjects with meanings: How artefacts can give us a new take on global history

Ministry Of Information First World War Official Collection

Food and drink on the Somme frontline: the soldier experience

The motivations behind Viking raids and the life of Dr Johnson

WWI army rations and the French Revolution

First World War special

The Holy Face by Andrei Rublev. Tempera on wood, 14th century. Moscow, Russia. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

The mutation of Christianity

‘Battle of Quiberon Bay' (c1765), from 'Old Naval Prints' by Charles N Robinson and Geoffrey Holme (The Studio Limited, London), 1924. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

The battle for Britain 1759

A statue of Lenin in Germany being removed from its plinth to be demolished. (Photo by Régis BOSSU/Sygma via Getty Images)

Looking back at The End of History

A group of Belgian refugees fleeing upon the arrival of German troops on the roads, 21 June 1940. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

The war grave warriors

Ancient Greece in the 4th-century BC and the Spanish in Mexico

The end of World War I

The LibraryVictoria's ascension and the Third Reich

Portrait of King Henry V of England (1387-1422), dated 15th century. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Henry V: the cruel king

The ancient theatre of Epidaurus (or "Epidavros"), Argolida prefecture, Peloponnese, Greece. (Photo by Gatsi via Getty Images)

Greece’s golden century

Inside Pompeii and a date with Elizabeth I

BBC History Magazine

The Man Who Outshone the Sun King

D-Day and the Templar on trial

A Nazi serial killer and a Tudor gentleman

Secrets of WWII, the French Revolution and 'The History of Scotland'

Gentile Bellini

My history hero: Gentile Bellini (1429-1507)

Soldiers of the Soviet Union

Did the Soviet Union win the war?

History holidays: French fancy

An aerial view of Wilton House

Going Dutch: the Glorious Revolution of 1688

My history hero: Hubert Butler (1900–1991)

The statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Getty Images)

Communist Moscow

The LibraryPivotal points of WWII

A flight of Vickers Wellington long-range bombers, used by the Royal Air Force to undertake raids into Germany and elsewhere, 8 February 1940. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Second World War bomber boys

William of Orange landing with his army at Torbay, Devon, 5 November 1688. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

A not so bloodless revolution

A portrait of William I of Orange. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Death from the shadows: the murder of William the Silent