Illustrated Medieval scene from the Romance of Lancelot

Medieval

A portrait of Thomas Cromwell

Thomas Cromwell: The rise and fall of Henry VIII’s henchman

Fresh views on the Wars of the Roses.

A mad is tied to a stake and burned alive as a crowd, including priests, look on

Heresy: a brief history

The long history of the Crusades.

Top 10 Plantagenet podcasts – from the Black Death to Richard III

Richard III had lavish diet of swan and wine, new forensic study reveals

10 astronomers you’ve (probably) never heard of

Richard III and dirty Tudors.

King Alfred The Great's statue designed by Hamo Thornycroft and erected in 1899 stands at the eastern end of the Broadway in Winchester, Hampshire, England. (Photo by Tony Baggett/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Q&AHow many English kings were known as ‘the Great’?

A portrait of Richard III.

Inside the mind of Richard III.

Mont Saint Michel (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Mont Saint Michel, France

The Stygian Lake in the Fifth Circle of Hell from from Dante’s epic poem 'The Inferno'. The phrase "Paint the town red" may originate from the sentence in the poem "we are they who painted the world scarlet with sins". (Photo by Getty Images)

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Paint the town red’?

My favourite place: Janina Ramirez

Q&AWhere does the name ‘London’ come from?

Richard III's lost chapel 'has been found'

Historians identify 'spot where Richard III was killed in battle'

The princes in the Tower

Did Richard III murder the princes in the Tower? You debate.

Photo of cat in cat flap

Q&AHow old is the cat flap?

Portrait of King Henry VI by an unknown artist. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

The miracle of Henry VI: how the weak medieval king became a 'saint'.

Richard III’s hair and eye colour ‘to be revealed’

Photo of Mount Grace Priory

Q&Ahttps://www.historyextra.com/period/what-was-a-charterhouse/

Watercolour painting of the Battle of Agincourt

Q&AWho paid for the arrows in the Battle of Agincourt?

Q&AAre there any rulers of England that don’t appear on the usual lists?.

Photo of Lincoln Cathedral

Q&AWhat overtook the Great Pyramid of Giza as the tallest manmade structure?

1,138: The number of London children recorded as dying of “teeth” in 1685. (Illustration: James Albon for BBC History Magazine)

History’s most surprising statistics.

A depiction of a public hanging of a bandit. (Photo by: Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

Sin City: thievery, prostitution and murder in medieval London.

Photo of a bomb

Q&AWhat was the Battle of the Herrings?

My history hero: Yolanda of Aragon (d1442).

Pillage of Jerusalem

Crusading for God and gold.

The Black Death and Tudor adventurers.