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Anne Boleyn, second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII

Anne Boleyn's youth: how her years on the continent made her a match for Henry VIII

The history hidden in British heritage sites

Thomas Crapper started a plumbing business in Chelsea in 1861 and pioneered some of the most revolutionary designs of sanitary engineering in the 19th century – but he didn't 'invent' the toilet

The legend of Thomas Crapper, the man who didn't invent the toilet

Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I

Henrietta Maria: Charles I’s warrior queen

Early Medieval Britain: everything you wanted to know

Walter Scott: an engraving after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence of the Scottish poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott

Walter Scott: the man who invented Scotland

The Scandalous BoleynsWhy Do They Continue To Fascinate Us?

VJ Day: turning the tide in the east

The British Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on the day of George VI's coronation

Britain’s May Queen: your guide to Queen Mary of Teck

An architectural grotesque of a woman displaying her vulva

How naughty was the past? The hidden depths of the medieval church

Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials

Alice Roberts“Graves are like time capsules – little microcosms of prehistoric culture"

Anne of Denmark, wife of James I of England

Anne of Denmark: a killer queen?

Mary, Queen of Scots during her trial at Fotheringhay Castle – where she was also executed for her alleged role in the Babington Plot (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

What if...The Babington Plot to assassinate Elizabeth I had succeeded?

Mary Wortley Montagu: the scourge of smallpox

History heroSteven Berkoff chooses Laurence Olivier (1907–89)

Building utopia after WW1

Portraits, power and royal wigs

Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies

Women munition workers stacking a reserve of shell castings during WWI

Young guns: the women and children of WW1 munitions factories

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, on historical fiction

Portrait Of Edward Seymour (Colorized)

Edward Seymour: the fall of the dithering dictator

Oliver Cromwell’s remarkable rise to power

Modern Welsh history: everything you wanted to know

Emma Dabiri"William Cuffay's story is more relevant now than ever"

George II: reassessing a much-forgotten monarch

A hard-fought history of trespass

A group of men observe a body lying on a table.

Early-modern cannibal doctors: why mummified corpse was considered medicine

A man runs on an athletics track with a crowd behind him

Harry Edward: Britain’s first black Olympic hero

Belgium and the Netherlands compete in a tug of war at the Antwerp Olympic

Olympic oddballs: 5 unusual Olympic sports from the past

Jesse Owens sprinting on a track at the Berlin Olympics.

A history of unsporting conduct at the Olympics