Europe

Russian civil war, 1919

General History

Russia-Ukraine crisis: 9 milestone moments in history that explain today’s invasion threat

Deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, German officer Paul Schmidt and Adolf Hitler survey damage at Hitler's eastern front military headquarters, ‘the Wolf’s Lair’, hours after a failed bombing attempt by Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. (Photo by Heinrich Hoffmann/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Second World War

Should we be glad the 1944 July Plot to kill Hitler failed?

Pod Martin Sixsmith WL

Cold war mind games

Pod Robert Harris WL

Second World War

Munich: the real history behind the new film

Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlain, in Munich – The Edge of War

Second World War

A martyr and a hero? How Munich – The Edge of War tries to soften Neville Chamberlain’s rotten reputation

Sudeten-Germans Salute the Arrival of Nazi Guards in Czechoslovakia, 1938

Second World War

Czechoslovakia’s fate hangs in the balance: the build up to the Munich Conference of 1938

Pod Natalie Livingstone WL

General History

Women of the Rothschild dynasty

Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton, next to a Regency portrait of Kitty Kirkpatrick.

Inspiring Bridgerton: the real South Asian women in Regency-era England

Pod Rory Cormac WL

Queen Victoria’s spy network

Illustration of King Louis IX.

A king of fire and light: Louis IX’s tangled legacy

Pod David Perry WL

Shining new light on medieval Europe

A portrait of Elizabeth Stuart, painted during the reign of Charles I

Elizabeth Stuart: the treasonous portrait that touted Charles I’s sister for the throne

Pod Tom Morris WL

A murder mystery in 19th-century Dublin

King George II of Great Britain

George II: 8 facts about the British king and German elector

Pod Mike Carr WL

Trading and crusading in the Middle Ages