France

US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, meeting during the Casablanca conference in 1943. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)

Second World War

Churchill and D-Day: did the prime minister oppose the Normandy landings?

Painting of the Field of Cloth of Gold (artist unknown) from around 1545

Your guide to... the Field of the Cloth of Gold

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In pictures: 150 years of the British Red Cross

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1754: Bayeux Tapestry 1667: William the Conqueror's Norman cavalry setting out to meet Harold II's English forces, Battle of Hastings, 14 October 1066. Textile Linen (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

From the British Isles to Italy and Spain: how the Normans reshaped Europe

Lucy Worsley in Regency period costume

Lucy Worsley on royal history’s biggest fibs

The White Ship disaster

Charles Spencer on the White Ship disaster, “the most disastrous moment in British maritime history”

Charles Spencer talks about the White Ship disaster on the HistoryExtra podcast. (Image by Getty Images)

The White Ship: a medieval royal tragedy

A portrait of Anne Boleyn. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Anne Boleyn: a 16th-century feminist?

Passengers on the Transatlantic liner Victoria, 1930s. (Photo by Getty Images)

Adventure and opportunity: female transatlantic travellers

The Knights of the Round Table are that the heart of many Arthurian legends

Who were the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, and where does the Holy Grail fit in?

Marisa Linton on the French Revolution.

The French Revolution: Everything you need to know

AUSTRIA - CIRCA 1778: Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of France, Daughter of Maria Theresia. Canvas by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Le Brun. (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) [Marie Antoinette, Erzherzogin von Oesterreich, Koenigin von Frankreich (1755-1793), Tochter von Maria Theresia Joseph, 1778. Gemaelde von Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Le Brun]

Marie Antoinette: the last queen of France

Edward the Confessor seated at a banquet

Edward the Confessor: England’s holy hardman

The real Mary Boleyn remains an elusive Tudor personality, flitting in and out of the sources, says historian Lauren Mackay. (Image by Alamy)

Your guide to Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn

The battle of Dover, 24 August 1217, (image c1880). (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Eustace the Monk: one of medieval Europe’s unholiest holy men