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Danny Robins' paranormal cold casesAlanbrooke Hall, Belfast

Jodie Comer plays Marguerite de Carrouges in the upcoming film 'The Last Duel',

“A spotlight on historic societal misogyny and disbelief of women”: what The Last Duel gets right and wrong

Supernatural stories: 9 unusual British folktales

A scene from the German film 'Ways to Strength and Beauty', 1925. (Ullstein Bild via Getty Images)

Second World War

Germany’s naked truth: the 19th-century nudism movements co-opted by the Nazis

Asia’s anti-imperial revolutionaries

Historian Saul David

Saul David“It was astonishing bravery – and cold-blooded bravery, too”

A axe stuck in a piece of wood

General Early Modern

Q&AWhy do we say 'bury the hatchet'?

Tourists at Stonehenge. We have no better idea today than 200 years ago what the people who erected these sarsens truly believed. (Getty Images)

Prehistoric religion: a pagan riddle we will never solve?

A depiction of folk figure Dick Whittington

Dick Whittington, the Loch Ness Monster and a talking mongoose: 8 mythical figures of British history

Illustration of the Red Dragon of China

Has China always been the world’s greatest superpower?

Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia

Haile Selassie, last emperor of Ethiopia and architect of modern Africa

Dinosaur dung became a valuable commodity in 19th century Cambridgeshire. (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Dinosaur dung billionaires: the Victorian 'gold rush' for fossilised faeces

Trial by combat: the real history behind The Last Duel

A montage of Romans (Photos courtesy of Getty and Alamy)

How ethnically diverse was Roman Britain?

A medieval miniature depicts a monk and a woman in a bed.

Sex in the Middle Ages: have attitudes really changed?

Portrait of First World War nurse Edith Cavell with one of her dogs

First World War

Edith Cavell: how the executed British First World War nurse became a symbol of peace

A portrait from the 18th century of King George III wearing his coronation robes

George III: why his reputation as the mad king who lost America needs to be re-evaluated

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace: a visionary of computing

A woodcut showing the interior of a kitchen in Elizabethan England. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hold your noses: the smells, sounds and sights of Elizabethan England

A reconstruction of a Viking church

Vikings in America: the Europeans who arrived 500 years before Columbus

A 12-year-old boy with a large bruise on his face ‘pulls threads’ in a New York sweatshop

The 19th-century slums of New York

A portrait of Charles II sitting on a throne

Your guide to King Charles II, the ‘merry monarch’

Unexpected Edwardians

Portrait of John Dee

John Dee: Elizabethan 007, scientist, magician and spy

German doctor Otto Warburg at work in his laboratory

Otto Warburg: the Jewish doctor and the Nazi war on cancer

A mosaic that shows two Roman women exercising, one holds a flower and another holds a leaf

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Roman women

Tony Robinson as Private Baldrick and Rowan Atkinson as Captain Blackadder

Q&AWas there a real Blackadder?

Jodie Comer plays Marguerite de Carrouges in the upcoming film 'The Last Duel',

The medieval women who spoke out against sexual violence

An illustration of the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865

Jamaica's Morant Bay Rebellion: brutality and outrage in the British empire

Illustration of the man in the iron mask standing by the window of his cell and guarded by two musketeers

Unmasking the 'man in the iron mask': do we know the identity of the famous prisoner?