People watching the Royal Wedding

United Kingdom

Ruth Ellis: the last woman to be hanged in Britain

A crowd gathers to watch the witnesses arrive for the trial of John George Haigh, the 'acid bath murderer', in Lewes, East Sussex, July 1949. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

10 facts about crime on the home front in the Second World War

Elizabethan England’s relationship with the Islamic world

Austrian physicist Lise Meitner

6 women in science history you (probably) didn’t know about

Schama on 'Civilisations'

Science and suffrage

The Terracotta Warriors

British 40th Division tanks transporting captured German guns from the battle of Cambrai. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

First World War

5 tanks that changed the course of the First World War

In pictures: The Terracotta Warriors

The World Cup story

The Spanish Flu pandemic

The Pankhursts

A woman votes for the first time in 1918 Britain

What was the 1918 Representation of the People Act?

Millicent Fawcett addressing crowds in Hyde Park

The 1913 march for women’s suffrage

The Suffragettes

In pictures: Diversity in nursing

Police hold back Mrs Lillian Bilocca on the quayside at Hull

The 1968 Triple Trawler Disaster and the women who fought for change

Elizabeth’s love rival

The LibraryFemale suffrage: Victory at last!

Mahatma Gandhi in Britain

Gandhi in Britain

Thomas Asbridge

Books interview with Thomas Asbridge: “Richard was a member of medieval Europe’s most dysfunctional family”

Chatsworth House

History explorer: Politics and power in Georgian Britain

Journey’s End: behind the scenes of the new First World War film

Britain’s secret wartime prison

The story of the Bayeux Tapestry

A scene depicted on the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry.

Bayeux Tapestry to be loaned to the UK: historians react

East End crime

How English is the Bayeux Tapestry?

What’s the real history behind ‘Britannia’?

'Darkest Hour': an interview with director Joe Wright