People watching the Royal Wedding

United Kingdom

Welsh flag, featuring a dragon. The red dragon of Wales dates back to Roman times. (Photo by Getty Images)

Q&AWhy does the Welsh flag feature a red dragon?

Actress Vesta Tilley poses with a bicycle while dressed in male uniform

General History

Drag kings: a brief history of male impersonators

Sir Oswald Mosley taking the salute from female members of the BUF

Your guide to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists (BUF)

In defence of Neville Chamberlain

People visit the prehistoric monument Stonehenge in January 2022

Stonehenge: a historian’s guide to visiting the stones

A marble bust of the Roman Emperor Claudius

Roman invasion of Britain: did the Britons ignore them?

Wales' fans celebrate victory at the 1957 Five Nations Tournament, France vs Wales, holding the Welsh symbol, the leek. (Photo by Universal/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Q&AWhy is the leek associated with Wales?

Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part two)

Second World War

The secret WW2 mission to save Britain’s art collections

Curling stones during a match at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah

General History

A brief history of curling – from medieval Scotland to the Winter Olympics

Philip II, king of Spain from 1556, seated with Queen Mary I of England. They married in 1554

When Mary met Philip: a Tudor queen in love

General prehistory

Explore8 little-known prehistoric sites in Britain

British identity in 50 documents

Your guide to Britain’s prehistoric stone circles

A panorama of the man-made Neolithic structure Silbury Hill in Wiltshire

ExploreSilbury Hill & Avebury, the site of Neolithic Britons

A photo of Stonehenge with plains in the background

General prehistory

Secrets of StonehengeWhen & how was it built?

An aerial photo of Stonehenge

Your guide to Stonehenge, plus 12 fascinating facts you might not know

Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby in season six of 'Peaky Blinders'

Peaky Blinders: The story so far, plus the real figures to expect in season 6

Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part one)

James Hamilton's 1880s painting 'The Massacre of Glencoe'.

Hell at Glencoe: what led to the massacre in the Scottish Highlands?

Extinct animals of medieval Britain

Children's author Beatrix Potter as a young woman, c1892

Why the real Beatrix Potter was more than her children’s tales

A portrait of King Charles I

Jane Whorwood: the royalists' secret weapon

Lettice Knollys

A Tudor love triangle: Elizabeth I, Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley

The battle of Fishguard: the last invasion of mainland Britain

Mary Stuart, shown here in a painting after Nicholas Hilliard, might have been a good queen, says Kate Williams, but the odds were stacked against her. (Image by Superstock)

Who betrayed Mary, Queen Of Scots?

Georgian Britain: the highs and lows of a transformative age

A group of Georgian gentlemen smoking, drinking and reading newspapers at their club

Penelope J Corfield“The Georgian era was a time of experimentation and invention”

An oil on panel portrait of Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville: Edward IV’s controversial queen consort

A replica of St Edward’s Crown, used in the coronation of British rulers since 1661

General History

Who is Britain’s greatest monarch?