Early comic panel illustration

England

‘Portrait of a Lady’ by Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, c1460. From the collection of the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Medieval underwear: bras, pants and lingerie in the Middle Ages

The White Tower, one of the oldest parts of the Tower of London complex, was built by William the Conqueror. (Getty Images)

Castles of the Conqueror

North East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland

Woodcutting depicting the beheading of Charles I. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Britain’s civil wars: the 15 key moments

Peover Hall, Cheshire

Arundel Castle, West Sussex

A photograph of J Meade Falkner, c1915. He "had an extraordinary mind, the type you don't come across often," says Chris de Burgh of the novelist. (Public Domain)

My history hero: J Meade Falkner (1858-1932)

Pickering Castle, North Yorkshire

General prehistory

Clearwell Caves, Gloucestershire

Members of the royal family on board the royal barge 'Spirit of Chartwell'. (Rota/Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)

The LibraryThe Thames triumphant: royal parties on London's grandest street

A cartoon depiction of mythical Luddite leader Ned Ludd. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Where history happened: Luddites

Two medieval men thresh a sheaf of wheat in this 14th century illustration. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Michael Wood on the history of you and me

Stamford, Lincolnshire

St Albans Clock Tower, Hertfordshire

Porthcumo Telegraph Museum, Cornwall

A view towards the Carew estuary between a dry stone wall and the ruins of Carew Castle, Pembrokeshire, UK. (Dreamstime)

Where history happened: Tudor courtiers with Suzannah Lipscomb

Britain’s medieval identity crisis

Ernest Bevin

My history hero: Ernest Bevin (1881-1951)

The Minack Theatre, Cornwall

Ironbridge

King George VI and stories from Africa

Mary Beard, professor of classics at the University of Cambridge. (David Levenson/Getty Images)

My history hero: Sir Moses I Finley (1912–86)

Royston Cave, Hertfordshire

An illustration from ‘A Short History of the English People’ by John Richard Green. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Drowning in Tudor England: why was water so dangerous?

The mourning of Queen Victoria

The Cenotaph, London

Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire

North West Museum of Road Transport, St Helens

The LibraryA new history of England and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Roche Abbey, Yorkshire