People watching the Royal Wedding

United Kingdom

An illustration of Charles II entering London on 29 May 1660 after the restoration of the monarchy (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Restoration periodA timeline of key moments

Stained glass in Exeter Cathedral depicting King Æthelstan. (Dreamstime)

The astonishing Æthelstan

A memorial tomb to King Æthelstan, in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire. (Photo by Geography Photos/UIG via Getty Images)

If King Alfred was great, was Æthelstan even greater?

Ewan Horrocks as Aelfweard and Adrian Schiller as Aethelhelm in The Last Kingdom season 5

Ælfweard and Æthelstan: were they rivals for the throne of Wessex?

Picture of Throrolf slaying Earl Hring

The battle of Brunanburh: the forgotten fight that changed British history

Bamburgh Castle is an imposing coastal fortress in North-East England

General History

Bamburgh Castle: The Real Bebbanburg of The Last Kingdom

Queen Victoria

Assassinating Queen Victoria: the men who attempted to murder the monarch

British prime minister Tony Blair, US Senator George Mitchell and Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern

A brief history of the Good Friday Agreement

An 1812 cartoon by Thomas Rowlandson depicts highwaymen in action in the days when travellers made for easy pickings for criminals (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Murder and mayhem in Georgian Britain: the scandalous work of Johnson's General History

A copy of the Declaration of Arbroath is held by the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh – the actual letter sent to Pope John XXII is lost (Photo by M.Brodie / Alamy Stock Photo)

The Declaration of Arbroath: your guide to Scotland's historic document

A goat pokes its head over the fence at a city farm near Greenland Dock, London, which is still home to the Surrey Docks Farm

Urban animals: the growth of city farms in 20th-century Britain

A small group of Argentine troops survey the scene not far from Port Stanley after arriving in the Falklands by helicopter (Photo by: SeM/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

What if...Argentina had won the Falklands War?

Thousands of Muslims gather in India in 2019 to offer Eid prayers, marking end of holy month of Ramadan

General ancient history

A brief history of Ramadan

(Photo by Mila Vasileva / Alamy Stock Photo)

Lady killers: what 5 murder cases can reveal about the lives of women in the 19th and 20th centuries

Wrens help transport a torpedo to a submarine in Portsmouth, 1943. The WRNS was viewed as the most exclusive of the women’s auxiliary services (Photo by Lt. J A Hampton/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

Second World War

Wrens at warLife in the Women's Royal Naval Service in WW2

Women's history podcast episodes

Sisters in armsThe Women's Liberation Movement

Suffragettes attempt to attack the house by airship. Miss Muriel Matters with megaphone, Hendon airfields, London. 16th February 1909

Muriel MattersThe well-spoken women’s rights hero

Rob Roy MacGregor by George Shearer. Scottish folk hero and outlaw.

The real Rob Roy

Women's rights in the 20th century: what happened after the vote was won?

Lord Byron

Everything you wanted to know about the Romantics

Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd, Wales. (Photo by Getty Images)

Tales of romanceThe historical love stories behind 5 British castles

A witch feeds her familiars in this illustration from the 1579 pamphlet about Windsor woman Elizabeth Stile (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo)

Forgotten TudorsWhat the lives of ordinary people tell us about Tudor England

Brian Epstein (centre) with the Beatles, who he managed from 1962 until his death in 1967 (Photo by Harry Benson/Getty Images)

Brian EpsteinThe brilliant but troubled man behind The Beatles

Sat in his Spitfire adorned with Figaro the Cat is decorated Second World War fighter pilot Ian Gleed, who had to hide his homosexuality (Photo by Royal Air Force Official Photographer/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

Second World War

Hiding in plain sightThe prejudice and tolerance of homosexuality in WW2 armed forces

A composite image showing the Edwardians

QuizHow well do you know the Edwardian era?

OpinionWhy the Edwardian era remains relevant today

An Edwardian family seated at a dinner table

What was life like for women in Edwardian Britain?

Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, c1779.

What great paintings sayDido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, c1779

Edward Tull-Warnock, who qualified as one of the first black dentists in Britain

The forgotten contributions of black Edwardians in Britain