People watching the Royal Wedding

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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?

Fiona Sampson"Mary never shook off the consequences of eloping with Shelley"

Chetham library

History explorer: Public libraries

Winston Churchill leaves a cabinet meeting

Churchill’s days of destiny

A painting of Charles I on horseback.

The art of a king

Illustation by Femke de Jong.

Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity

Eating with Dickens

A 19th-century depiction of the first meeting of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

History quiz: Christmas with Henry VIII and his wives

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

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

History heroJeremy Corbyn chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97)

The Charles II Royal Oak

ExploreCharles II's great escape

Blitz

Second World War

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

Black faces of Tudor England

General Edmund Allenby walks into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s unholy mess

Charles II on the run

The real history behind ‘The White Princess’

Second World War

The Coventry Blitz – Q&A with historian Frederick Taylor

Gertrude Bell. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

My history hero: Gertrude Bell (1868–1926)

A brooch commemorating Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897. Queen Victoria is surrounded by a gold frame, ribbons and laces. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The Victorian shadow over the 20th century

Historian David Starkey.

Starkey on the Reformation

Great Court, British Museum, Bloomsbury, London. (Getty Images)

Heaven… on Earth

The Royal Opera House. (Getty Images)

History Explorer: Opera in Britain

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

Indian princes and British Army officers in the Hyderabad contingent polo team, c1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cricket, curry and cups of tea: India's influence on Victorian Britain

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

Neville Chamberlain is underestimated, argues author Robert Harris

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