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Colourful illustration of 12 historical figures's heads (Winston Churchill, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Thomas Cromwell, Richard III, Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, Anne Boleyn, William Marshal, Jane Austen, Hatshepsut, Gandhi and Catherine the Great) shown in a grid pattern.

Top historical figures: 100+ of the most famous people through history – in chronological order

Charles and Diana on honeymoon in Balmoral

Diana: the rebel princess

Black and white image of several African men pushing two French missionaries in a sort of chair with wheels.

Think pieceWhy history must take a stance

Doctor Who through the ages

Pumpkins carved into jack o'laterns with candles inside

QuizWhich historic figure should you choose for your Halloween costume?

Gulielma Lister: the female botanist who became the queen of slime moulds

A depiction of folk figure Dick Whittington

Dick Whittington, the Loch Ness Monster and a talking mongoose: 8 mythical figures of British history

Illustration of the Red Dragon of China

Has China always been the world’s greatest superpower?

Liberty and racism: an interconnected history

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace: a visionary of computing

Tony Robinson as Private Baldrick and Rowan Atkinson as Captain Blackadder

Q&AWas there a real Blackadder?

Adolf Hitler stands with his back to a statue of Discobolos, the Discus Thrower

The classics and racial hatred: how the far right hijacked the ancient world

Montage of three talented teenagers. From left to right: Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great, musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and chess player Judit Polgár

The flush of youth: nine talented teenagers from history

World history in 100 moments

Two Hitler Youth who have surrendered to Allied Forces, Germany, 1945. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

First World War

Innocence under fire: how children were used in warfare of the past

Allied convoy PQ 17 is attacked by a German torpedo aircraft on its way across the Arctic Ocean, c1942. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

“The worst journey in the world”: the Arctic convoys of the Second World War

Illustration depicting the migration of people across the world

How has migration changed the world?

Brazilian peacekeepers under UN command in Haiti during general election 2006

When should countries intervene in others’ affairs?

Witnesses to the Berlin Wall

The transformation of India’s glamorous golden couple

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, on historical fiction

Students study mathematics in Lahore in 1933

Revising the Raj

A hard-fought history of trespass

How the 1964 Tokyo Olympics redefined Japan

Australian bushrangers: folk heroes or common criminals?

Olympic history: everything you wanted to know

How assassinations have changed history

Jesse Owens sprinting on a track at the Berlin Olympics.

A history of unsporting conduct at the Olympics

Elinor CleghornThe History of Unwell Women

Robespierre is guillotined on 28 July 1794. Had he died two years earlier, his name would now be associated with liberty and equality, argues Marisa Linton. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Robespierre: man of terror