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The 1016 Danish Conquest that led to the battle of Hastings

The Norman Conquest

The battle of Stamford Bridge, 1066. (Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

1066 – how the Viking diversion cost Harold his throne

Viscountess Nancy Astor on her election campaign in 1919. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

The LibraryWomen pioneers in parliament

The London & North Western Railway locomotive Jeanie Deans picking up water at Bushey Troughs, 1899. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Europe’s century of peace and progress

Illustrations by Sarah Young, based on contemporary portraits where available

Henry VII’s brilliant upstarts: the lowborn henchmen who served the first Tudor king

The search for Henry I: what you need to know

Sheet music.

History quiz – songs, space stations and capital cities

Historical television and the battle of Flodden

Crew of the HMS Terror. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Finding HMS Terror and making sense of the past

Churchill's army: the wartime leader’s military track record examined

Accidental explosions: gunpowder in Tudor and Stuart London

Women in politics and Robinson Crusoe

Did women revolt in Europe?

Detail of a Viking helmet from grave one at Vendel, Uppland, Sweden. In the 860s and 870s, the Vikings would bring war to England’s four kingdoms on a massive scale. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The great Viking terror: how Norse warriors conquered the Anglo-Saxons

View of the Waterloo Gallery at Apsley House, London. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The LibraryHistory explorer: the Napoleonic Wars

Newcastle upon Tyne, 1877, published in the Illustrated London News. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

The LibraryEngland’s northern soul

An engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar depicting Old St Paul's on fire during the Great Fire of London, 1666. Frantic efforts to fight the flames quickly turned into an equally fevered search for a scapegoat. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

The Library1666: when London burned with rage

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr (centre) at a UN Security Council meeting concerning the Suez crisis. (Photo by Lisa Larsen/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Blood and sand: Suez, Hungary and the crisis that shook the world

Londoners read newspaper headlines about Britain's entry to the Common Market, January 1973. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The reluctant Europeans

What are the historical origins of darts?

Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark in the TV series 'Poldark'. (Photo by Adrian Rogers)

Period dramas should not be judged on historical accuracy, say historians

The history of London’s 10 greatest live music venues

London’s 7 most memorable lord mayors

The end of the First World War and the Duke of Wellington

Everything you know about 17th-century London is wrong

History on film: London is smothered by a dangerous smog

The Great Fire of London: two historians discuss the events and legacy of the 1666 blaze

Ripper Street series four: behind the scenes with writer Richard Warlow

Royal palaces of the Hundred Years’ War