Illustrated Medieval scene from the Romance of Lancelot

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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

History explorer: the catastrophe of the Black Death

Self-portraits: How people took selfies in the past

Disability history

JFK and a neglected Tudor, Elizabeth of York

The coffin containing the remains of Richard III. The skeleton of the king was discovered in 2012 in the foundations of Greyfriars Church, Leicester, 500 years after he was killed during the battle of Bosworth. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

The discovery of Richard III's remains

Video: Gus Casely-Hayford on Timbuktu at BBC History Magazine's History Weekend

A photograph showing bronze hand-bells

Medieval Scotland

Who's the best-dressed Briton in history?

"People in the Middle Ages coped better with death than we do"

The princes in the Tower: why was their fate never explained?

Richard III tomb design unveiled by Leicester Cathedral