London

Diana and Charles being driven to Buckingham Palace after their wedding

Princess Diana and Prince Charles’s wedding: everything you need to know

Diana and Charles in Canada, 1986

Charles and Diana: a history of their marriage

Evil May Day

The Evil May Day Riots of 1517: what happened?

A late 16th century portrait of Anne Boleyn (c.1500-1536)

Anne Boleyn, Beefeaters, Guy Fawkes and the princes: a brief history of the Tower of London

Author Kate Summerscale (Photo by Fran Monks)

A 1930s ghost hunt

Actor William Gillette playing the detective Sherlock Holmes. (Photo by Gillette/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)

11 things you (probably) didn’t know about Sherlock Holmes

Charles and Camilla, 1979

Prince Charles and Camilla: a history of their romance

The Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London: how the ferocious blaze of 1666 destroyed the capital

The 1851 Great Exhibition’s west wing

The 1851 Great Exhibition: inside the Victorian spectacle

The future King George VI playing at the Wimbledon tennis championships, 1926

George VI: the everyman king

Bill Nighy and Olivia Cooke in 'The Limehouse Golem'.

The real history behind Victorian thriller ‘The Limehouse Golem’

A portrait of Samuel Pepys, English writer and diarist. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Samuel Pepys

Globe Theatre illustration

The Globe theatre fire of 1613: when Shakespeare’s playhouse burned down

Dan Jones by the River Medway at Rochester in Kent. Jones is the presenter of 'Walking Britain’s Roman Roads', which airs on 1 July 2020 at 9pm on 5Select.

Exploring Britain’s Roman roads with historian Dan Jones

Francis Drake portrait

Francis Drake’s forgotten role in the English slave trade