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Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry HistoryExtra podcast series title card

Unravelling the Bayeux TapestryEpisode 1: When, Where & Why. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Police lead away a suffragettes, arrested for chaining herself to the railings of Buckingham Palace

Female activism: 10 remarkable protests from around the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Science is helping to reveal new information about life in the Viking Age

Vikings under the microscope: what can science tell us about Viking life?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

1871: Otto von Bismarck reads the Proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles following Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Germany’s pre-Nazi history: rethinking the Second Reich. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Learning the hard way: soldiers struggle to move a field gun through the Flanders mud. The key to victory in the west was the Allies’ ability to effect one of the “most consequential technologies and tactical transformations in the history of war,” says Nick Lloyd. (Photo by Getty Images)

Revolution on the western front. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard III: your guide to the last Yorkist king of England

A set of dentures belonging to George Washington. The first US president wore fake teeth for much of his life

Q&ADid George Washington have wooden teeth?

Alexander the Great on his horse, Bucephalus

Bucephalus: why is Alexander the Great's horse famous?

The 'Alexander Mosaic' showing Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great: all you need to know about the empire builder and military genius

Edgar the Aetheling is notably missing from the Bayeux Tapestry

The lost figure of the Bayeux Tapestry: where is Edgar Ætheling?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Marie Antoinette

Q&ADid Marie Antoinette really say “let them eat cake”?

A medieval illustration of women fighting and toiling alongside men during a siege

Crusader queens: the formidable female rulers of Jerusalem. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 1815–46 Corn Laws: your guide to the crisis and why they were repealed

Nell Gwyn was a mistress of King Charles II

Nell GywnThe orange girl who became a king's mistress in Restoration England

A photograph of the battle of Moscow, 1942, first printed in Signal, a magazine published by the German Third Reich from 1940 to 1945. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Second World War

Operation Barbarossa: why Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union was his greatest mistake

Women 'take the air' in an attempt to ward off the Spanish Flu

"Far too little, too late": what happened when Spanish Flu hit Britain?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Madame Tussaud's exhibition at Baker Street, London. But who was her first waxwork? (Photo by Bettmann, via Getty Images)

Q&AWho was Madame Tussaud’s first waxwork?

Mary Anning was an extremely prolific fossil hunter

Mary Anning: the woman who hunted dinosaurs

Author and biographer Max Adams (Photo by Alamy)

Max AdamsBritain in the centuries after the Romans: “You can think of this era as a black hole into which our history tumbles”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'Pirate queen' Grace O'Malley. (Illustration by Sue Gent for BBC History Revealed)

Grace O’Malley: the fearless pirate queen of Ireland

Henry the Young King is crowned in 1170. (Wikimedia Commons)

The real King Arthur and his Lancelot? Henry the Young King's remarkable friendship with William Marshal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Seacole is best known for her work during the Crimean War, where she cared for injured soldiers. But she was also well-known as a hotelier, traveller and author – a celebrity of the Victorian era. This is a contemporary painting of her

Mary SeacoleVictorian celebrity, joyful hotelier and Crimean nurse

The 'Iron Duke' steam locomotive with railway workers

The history of railways in Britain: from the first steam trains to the rail revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon

Prince Arthur, Catherine of Aragon, and Henry VIII: a story of early Tudor triumph and tragedy

A 19th-century depiction of HMS Erebus in the ice, by François Etienne Musin. What exactly happened to the ship and its crew remains a mystery. (Picture by Alamy)

The Franklin Expedition: what happened on the ill-fated Victorian voyage?

Spitfires under construction at the Vickers Supermarine works in Southampton, around 1940

The difficult birth of the Spitfire – and how the WW2 fighter almost missed the battle of Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The assassination of Julius Caesar

What if…Julius Caesar had not been assassinated?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Picture depicting the Cato Street conspirators

To kill the cabinet: the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An engraving of the thin Red Line, depicting the 93rd Regiment at the battle of Balaklava

Q&AWhat was the Thin Red Line?

Engraved portrait of George Washington, the first president of the United States of America

George Washington: your guide to the war hero, founding father, first US president and slave owner