Location

Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton: the man behind the hit musical.

My favourite place: Marrakech, Morocco

Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin stands beside an American flag, soon after landing on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. (Photo by NASA/Liaison)

OpinionWas the Moon landing really a great leap for mankind?.

1922 in pictures: nationalists, navies, mountains and modernism

Illustation by Femke de Jong.

Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity.

A portrait of Charles Dickens. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

My history hero: Charles Dickens.

An aerial image of Maiden Castle, site of Britain's largest hillfort. (Photo by Robert Harding/Getty Images)

What was life like in the Iron Age? Plus 6 places in Britain to explore.

Illustration by Lynn Hatzius

Britain’s Bonnie and Clyde.

The ruins of the Canadian port of Halifax in the wake of the explosion in December 1917. Almost 2,000 people were killed and 9,000 injured when two ships collided at the height of the First World War. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

Catastrophe in Canada.

A British soldier uses a searchlight to spot German aircraft during the Second World War. Britain has lived with the fear of invasion for several centuries, a fact reflected in its architecture, its art and its people’s mental health. (Photo by David Savill/Getty Images)

The LibraryThe island fortress fallacy.

A view over Yaoundé, Cameroon

My favourite place: Yaoundé, Cameroon

History heroJeremy Corbyn chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97).

Blitz

Second World War

The cruel cost of the Blitz: how did everyday Britons rebuild their lives?

Black faces of Tudor England.

The British soldiers who fought for Germany in the world wars.

Violeta Parra and the birth of ‘New Song’

Charles II on the run.

The real history behind ‘The White Princess’

Sewing for the Nazis: who were the dressmakers of Auschwitz?.

First World War

Britain’s Chinese army.

Children at the Berlin Wall on Sebastianstrasse, Berlin - Kreuzberg - in around 1964. (Photo by Lehnartz/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The secret history of the Berlin Wall

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.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, depicted in an undated Communist poster. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The red dawn: the October Revolution.

My favourite place: the Camargue, France

The Medici.

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.

Michael X, (right, foreground) black power advocate, in Hyde Park. (Photo by Terence Spencer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Michael X and the British war on black power.

The May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis: Churchill’s darkest hour?.

The world of the Scythians.