Canada

Stephen Tuffnell delves into the Klondike gold rush, a two-year whirlwind that brought at least 30,000 prospectors to the remote Yukon in search of glory and gold. (Image by Getty IMages)

Digging into the Klondike gold rush

Everything you wanted to know about Canadian history

Canadian history: everything you wanted to know

In 1845, the Franklin Expedition sailed into the Canadian arctic and never returned. Andrew Lambert explores the real history that inspired the BBC drama The Terror. (Image by Getty Images)

What happened to the Franklin Expedition? The real mystery behind The Terror

Women topic

Women's history podcast episodes

A 19th-century depiction of HMS Erebus in the ice, by François Etienne Musin. What exactly happened to the ship and its crew remains a mystery. (Picture by Alamy)

The Franklin Expedition: what happened on the ill-fated Victorian voyage?

Postcards from the past competition

Postcards from the past: Aged between 6–13? Enter our exciting lockdown competition

Tectonic foliation in metamorphic rocks at Porthleven, Cornwall. (Photo by Getty Images)

How the world made us

Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

Coronavirus: what might we learn from pandemics in the past?

Illustration of Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19). (Photo by Alamy)

Coronavirus: a historical perspective

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector

General Early Modern

Royalists, beards and cowardice: are these the strangest taxes in history?

This 1867 magazine illustration shows a group of children preparing for Halloween. (Photo by American Stock/Getty Images)

General Early Modern

The origins of Halloween: tricks, treats and cobbled streets

Highclere Castle

The secrets of Downton Abbey’s Highclere Castle

Canadian troops go ashore on D-Day

Second World War

“Free people everywhere should remember them”: the Canadians’ role in D-Day

A biplane takes off from Newfoundland

Alcock and Brown: the first aviators to fly across the Atlantic

The ruins of the Canadian port of Halifax in the wake of the explosion in December 1917. Almost 2,000 people were killed and 9,000 injured when two ships collided at the height of the First World War. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

First World War

Catastrophe in Canada