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The Beatles pictured in 1969

The Beatles: 8 landmark moments that chart the changing face of sixties Britain

Photo showing a snowy Wounded Knee, where US troops massacred the Lakota Sioux, with bodies visible in the foreground

The massacre at Wounded Knee: why did the US Army attack the Lakota Sioux?

A model of the so-called ‘Piltdown Man’ and a replica of its skull,

Q&AWho was the Piltdown Man?

Turning points1956: The shock of Suez

Turning points1916: The long march to modernity

Turning points1851: The Crystal Palace

Turning points1832: The ‘Great’ Reform Act

Turning points1776: The year of American independence

Turning points1745: The Jacobite rebellion

Turning points1662: Restoration tragedy

The Spanish Armada which threatened England in July 1588. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Turning points1588: The Spanish Armada

Portrait of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543). (Photo by: PHAS/UIG via Getty Images)

Turning points1534: Henry VIII declares his ‘empire’

Part ten in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1450–1499

Turning points1483: Richard grabs the throne

Watercolor Painting Depicting Battle of Agincourt (Photo by © Historical Picture Archive/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Turning points1415: The battle of Agincourt

The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 in England began in Brentwood, Essex as a protest at the collection of poll tax and reached a climax at Smithfield, London. Richard II (1367-1800) met the Kentish peasants who, under Watt Tyler (d1381), were demanding the end of serfdom. During the meeting William Walworth (d1385) Lord Mayor of London, wounded Wat Tyler who was taken to St Bartholomew's Hospital but was later dragged out of the hospital and beheaded. 19th century lithograph. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Turning points1381: The Peasants’ Revolt

Part six in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1200–1249

Turning points1295: Edward I consolidates English rule

Part five in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1250–1299

Turning points1215: Magna Carta

Part four in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1150–1199

Turning points1171: The English invasion of Ireland

Part three in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1100–1149

Turning points1141: Stephen v Matilda

Part two in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1050–1099

Turning points1066: The year of four kings

Part one in our 20-part series looking at decisive moments of the last 1,000 years in British history explores 1000–1049

Turning points1016: The Danish conquest of England

Nellie Bly

Around the world in 72 days: how journalist Nellie Bly became the real Phileas Fogg

Photograph of Bass Reeves, the first black deputy US marshal west of the Mississippi River

From slave to real Lone Ranger? The incredible life of black Wild West lawman Bass Reeves

Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll in A Very British Scandal (left); Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (right)

The Argyll divorce: the society scandal that rocked 1960s Britain

This print from 1807 shows John Bull sat between the rival singers Elizabeth Billington (left) and Angelica Catalani, who sing lines adapted from The Beggar’s Opera.

Sex, lies and arias: the prima donnas of Georgian London

Vintners in an ale house, 1642. From a broadsheet titled ‘Health to All’, artist unknown. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Did Oliver Cromwell ban Christmas? The Puritan assault on Christmas during the 1640s and 1650s

Thomas Kendrick: MI6 spymaster who helped win WW2

Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin. (Getty Images)

First World War

Did a British agent murder Rasputin?

St Columba. This Irish patron saint's influence on the Christian church was, and still is, felt much further afield

Medieval miracle worker: how St Columba transformed Christianity in Britain

Pearl HarborEpisode 5