People watching the Royal Wedding

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17 unmissable battles podcasts

Tixall Gatehouse, Staffordshire. (Photo by The Landmark Trust)

10 of Britain’s most amazing landmark buildings

Portrait of Oliver Cromwell. This is one of several replicas of a portrait by Sir Peter Lely. Cromwell is supposed to have said: “I desire you would use all your skill to paint your picture truly like me… but remark all these roughness, pimples, warts and everything as you see me. Otherwise, I will never pay a farthing for it.”

Why do we say 'warts and all'?

Black and white image depicting engraving of Julius Caesar.

Q&AWhat is the earliest evidence for a battle in Britain?

Patricia Simmons recording the speaking clock.

Q&AWho voiced the original speaking clock?

Great British eccentrics: 7 of the most peculiar people in history

The Brontës and a revolutionary artist

Suffragette: ‘a moving and inspiring film that must be seen’

A brief history of Royal Navy search & rescue 1915–2015

Portrait of King Henry VIII

History heroNathaniel Parker chooses Henry VIII (1491-1547)

Ruthven Barracks

The LibraryHistory Explorer: The Jacobite uprisings

An illustration of the Georgian underclass

The power of the Georgian underclass

Winston Churchill by Yousuf Karsh

Simon Schama's portraits of a nation

New views on the Holocaust and 1980s Britain

Battle of Culloden. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Scottish history: 9 steps from Union to Referendum

BBC History Magazine

How significant is Scotland’s ‘No’ vote? Historians debate

The Somme and the Jacobites

A Black Market camera seller

Criminals of the Blitz: how the German bombings created a golden age of crime

7 Victorian recipes

Hurricane fighter planes taking off from Gravesend after being refuelled and rearmed, during the Battle of Britain. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

The Battle of Britain: a brilliant triumph that involved far more than just the chosen few

Norwich castle

History explorer: The Norman conquest

Queen Elizabeth II

How to be a successful monarch

A mob sets fire to Newgate Prison during the Gordon Riots

Taxing Catholics: how one Georgian government targeted a religious community

The mahogany wooden interior of the Glasgow School of Art

My history hero: Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928)

Calendars of the twelve months (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

Medieval immigrants: moving to England in the Middle Ages

Second World War

In pictures: The Blitz

Far From the Madding Crowd: an interview with Ruth Goodman

Winston Churchill with a bulldog mascot as he leaves the Wanstead Conservative Club in his Woodford, Essex constituency on general election day, 23 February 1950. (Photo by Central Press/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Second World War

Q&AWhat is the significance of the British Bulldog?

Looking inside the medieval Holt Castle

A 'full English' breakfast

Q&AWhy is a fry-up breakfast called a ‘full English’?