Europe

Paul Betts explores how postwar regeneration after 1945 was inspired by the contested concept of civilisation. (Image by Getty Images)

Rebuilding Europe after WW2

Princess Feodora (left), half-sister of Queen Victoria (right)

Princess Feodora: the little-known sister of Queen Victoria

An illustration of the head of Louis XVI

The French Revolution through 7 severed heads

Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

The real story of Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte: from glittering courts to tragic decline

An Australian Sea Shanty band, c1988

A brief history of sea shanties

Rosie Whitehouse tells the story of a group of Holocaust survivors who sailed to Palestine in 1946, in defiance of the Royal Navy. (Image by Getty Images)

Searching for freedom after the Holocaust

Portrait of Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria quiz: how much do you know about the monarch?

An engraving depicting London's Piccadilly Circus heaving with crowds on their way to The Great Exhibition of 1851. A banner reading 'God save the Queen and Prince Albert' has been strung across the street. Within the Crystal Palace some 100,000 objects were displayed – taking up ten miles of space – the work of 15,000 contributors. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

From the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Britain: the decline and fall of the British empire

English cavalry attacking the Sikh at the Battle of Aliwal

Victoria the warrior queen

Dominic Sandbrook answers popular search queries and listener questions about Britain in the 1960s. (Image by Getty Images)

Britain’s Swinging Sixties: everything you wanted to know

Priya Satia explores how historians helped advance the British empire, only to later become critics of imperialism. (Image by Getty Images)

How historians helped build the British empire

Mary, Queen of Scots

9 of the worst monarchs in history

Photo of statue of Leif Erikson

Leif Erikson’s voyage to Vinland

A reconstruction of a Viking church

Vikings in America: the Europeans who arrived 500 years before Columbus

19th century advert for snuff

Q&A What was snuff?