General Modern

London burns behind Tower Bridge on 7 September 1940

Second World War

Days of destiny: 5 key dates in the Battle of Britain

History graduate Steve Humphries' 1998 film exploring the stories of women who worked in Magdalene laundries

How my history degree led to my dream job

Charles and Camilla, 1979

Prince Charles and Camilla: a history of their romance

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor playing Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII in the 1963 film, Cleopatra. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)

7 of the most memorable couples in history

Illustration by Joey Guidone

The big question: has terrorism ever achieved its aims?

Isabel Wilkerson. (Photo by Alamy)

Isabel Wilkerson on caste in America

London during the Blitz - the systematic night-time bombing of the British by the Luftwaffe in 1940 - 1941. (Photo by Getty Images)

Rationing, school closures and ‘Blitz spirit’: how did people cope in WW2?

c1954: A photo-fiction serial telling the story of a young couple on honeymoon in the South of France. The parts are played by actors Mark Hashfield and Simone Lovell. (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A brief history of honeymoons (and how the post-wedding holiday got its name)

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Postcards from the past competition: the winners

Floral tributes to Diana, Princess of Wales, outside Kensington Palace. (Photo by Liba Taylor/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Princess Diana’s death: when grief gripped a nation

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

George VI: the everyman king

Queen In New Zealand, 1970

Queen Elizabeth II on tour

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace: a visionary of computing

President Donald Trump

A brief history of election “rigging” in the United States

Afrikaners with a Nordenfeld-Maxim field gun at Mafeking during the Second Boer War, 1900. (Photo by Getty Images)

Authors in the Boer War