People watching the Royal Wedding

United Kingdom

A painting showing the defeat of the Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada: all at sea.

The undignified fates of the bodies of Anglo-Saxon kings in the medieval period.

Elizabeth I: what does this forgotten portrait tell us about her?.

John Sergeant

My history hero: Arthur Ransome.

Emmeline Pankhurst's former Manchester home

History explorer: The fight for women’s suffrage.

Saladin and suffragettes.

Officers at the Exchequer, 12th century England

Medieval immigration: “They’re heavy drinkers, barbarous and full of guile”.

The Victorians’ surprisingly liberal attitude towards gay men.

9 people you didn’t know made history swimming in the River Thames.

Picture of the Frost Fair on the Thames

Q&ADid the Thames used to freeze over?

First World War

In pictures: WWI submarines

Hadrian's Wall

Welcome to Britannia: Roman Britain in AD 130.

7 places that shaped the life of Richard III.

Richard III's skull. (Image by Catriona Gray)

What has the discovery of Richard III's remains taught us?

Five places Richard III may have wanted to be buried (and none of them are Leicester)

Women wearing unrationed shoe soles during the war

Dressed for war: fashions of the Second World War.

John Maynard Keynes

Books interview with Richard Davenport-Hines: "The great lesson of John Maynard Keynes's life is generosity of spirit".

From rations to ready meals: the transformation of the nation’s diet.

The tombs of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in Fontevraud Abbey, France. (Dreamstime)

The duchy of Aquitaine: an English ‘colony’ in deepest France.

Revellers at Stonehenge

General prehistory

Q&ADid the druids have anything to do with Stonehenge?

Picture of children being put to bed

Q&AWhat was 'pigging'?.

Photo of British coins

Q&AWhy do we have the letters 'FD' on our coins?

The Victorians’ grisly fascination with murder.

William Hogarth

My history hero: William Hogarth (1697–1764)

A British major pictured in German captivity

"How I fell captive to the Germans": the experience of First World War PoWs.

Parts of the Magna Carta

The amazing legacy of Magna Carta.

A demonstrator vents his spleen at police officers during an anti-Vietnam War rally in London's Grosvenor Square

Britain at war over Vietnam.

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary.

The bronze effigy on the tomb of Edward Plantagenet, known as the Black Prince, in the Trinity Chapel of Canterbury Cathedral, Kent. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Q&AWhy was the Black Prince called ‘Black’?

The Peasants’ Revolt.