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England

Winston Churchill with a bulldog mascot as he leaves the Wanstead Conservative Club in his Woodford, Essex constituency on general election day, 23 February 1950. (Photo by Central Press/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Second World War

Q&AWhat is the significance of the British Bulldog?

A 'full English' breakfast

Q&AWhy is a fry-up breakfast called a ‘full English’?

Henry VII is crowned near Bosworth

Q&AWhat Happened After The Battle of Bosworth?

The daily hustle and bustle in the busy fishing port of Newlyn in Penzance, Cornwall, c1870. (Photo by Gibson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Top 10 historical Cornish words

Dover Castle, Kent. (Photo by Olaf Protze/LightRocket via Getty Images)

England's 8 most amazing castles

Photo of ancient public toilets

General ancient history

Q&AHow old is the toilet seat?

Anne Boleyn, who was executed by beheading on 19 May 1536 after being found guilty of high treason, was said to have had "much joy and pleasure in death". (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Did Anne Boleyn crave the crown?

An illustration depicting King John signing Magna Carta in 1215. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

6 Magna Carta myths explained

Photo of pipe and tobacco

Q&ADid people smoke anything before tobacco was discovered?

In picturesStonehenge tourism through history

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?

Emmeline Pankhurst's former Manchester home

History explorer: The fight for women’s suffrage

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

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

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

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?

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’?

Love and marriage in Tudor England

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: Suzannah Lipscomb dispels myths about the lovers who changed history

Holbein portrait of Henry VIII

Q&ADid Henry VIII have any illegitimate male offspring?

Anita Anand on Sophia Duleep Singh: goddaughter of Queen Victoria and prominent campaigner for women’s rights

A statue of celebrated English nurse and wartime heroine, Edith Cavell

First World War

History heroKate Mosse chooses Edith Cavell (1865–1915)

Henry VIII. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Q&AHow many executions was Henry VIII responsible for?

10 facts about Clifton Suspension Bridge

8 facts about Old Sarum – an Iron Age fort, Roman settlement and medieval city

Picture depicting the Dogger Bank Incident

Q&AWhat was the 'North Sea Outrage'?

England captain Bobby Moore

My history hero: Bobby Moore

Picture of a lion and tiger fighting

Q&AWhere was England's first zoo?