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Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, with her husband Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, after their marriage in 1947. (Corbis via Getty Images)

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip: 8 milestones in their marriage

Postcards from the past

Postcards from the past: a selection of entries from our lockdown competition

The British home has changed substantially in the past 300 years (Illustration by Ed Crooks)

The evolution of the British home: from the Georgian era to the present day

David Olusoga in the Bristol house featuring in series 3 of A House Through Time (Photo by BBC–Twenty Twenty Productions–Mark Bourdillon)

David Olusoga on A House Through Time

Annie Gray photographed at her home in East Anglia (Photo by Ian Farrell)

Cooking for Churchill

A uniformed US soldier plants American flags at gravesites on Memorial Day

A brief history of Memorial Day in the USA

Rutger Bregman. (Rutger Bregman (Photo by Maartje ter Horst)

Rutger Bregman’s optimistic history of the world

Photo of Queen Elizabeth II and members of the Privy Council

In a nutshell What does the Privy Council do?

10 February 1840: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their return from their wedding at St James's Palace, London. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Why do brides wear white dresses? Plus the history behind 3 more wedding traditions

Josephine Baker with her adopted children. She called them the ‘Rainbow Tribe’. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Memorable mothers: history’s most remarkable mums

Miners work hard in cramped conditions at the pit face in Ellington Colliery, Northumberland, 1951 (Photo by Getty Images)

The Northumbrians: from Bede to Geordie Shore

Members of the royal family: Prince Louis; Prince George; Prince William, Duke of Cambridge; Princess Charlotte; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge; Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall; Prince Charles, Prince of Wales; Princess Anne, Princess Royal; and Queen Elizabeth II during the Queen's annual birthday parade on 8 June 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

From The Crown to Queen Elizabeth’s corgis: 24 history questions about the royal family for your home pub quiz

Postcards from the past competition

Postcards from the past: Aged between 6–13? Enter our exciting lockdown competition

Peter Mayhew, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill, on-set of the film Star Wars

Star Wars: why did the film make history?

Expelled Germans leaving Poland's western territories

Second World War

“The war without an end”: what happened in Europe after VE Day?