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Edward the Confessor

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Anglo-Saxons

Illustration of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn on their wedding day

The royal weddings of Henry VIII: Alison Weir on what came before divorced, beheaded, died…

The British royal family at the Queen's annual birthday parade 2019

A brief guide to the British royal family, by The Crown’s historian Robert Lacey

Pompeii wall painting depicting an erotic satyr and nymph

In bed with the Romans: a brief history of sex in Ancient Rome

A Red Cross worker in the United States, 1918

Spanish flu: the virus that changed the world

Elizabeth of York portrait

Elizabeth of York: a Tudor of rare talent

Charles and Camilla, 1979

Prince Charles and Camilla: a history of their romance

Outbreak of dance mania

The medieval dance of death

Walt Disney uses a baton to point to sketches of Disneyland

The history of Disneyland: How Walt Disney created the ‘Happiest Place on Earth’

Pocahontas and John Smith in Disney's ‘Pocahontas’ (1995). (Photo by AF archive/Alamy Stock Photo)

Disney history: how has the corporation shaped our perception of the past?

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Arrives Japan

Q&A Have the Olympic Games ever been cancelled?

Clothes infected by the Black Death are burned in medieval Europe

Black Death facts: your guide to “the worst catastrophe in recorded history”

PT Barnum and General Tom Thumb

The greatest show on earth? The myths of the Victorian freak show

Greg Jenner. (Photo by Frank Monks)

Books interview Fame, fortune and falls from grace: Greg Jenner on the rise of celebrity culture

April issue of BBC History Magazine

April 2020 issue of BBC History Magazine out now!