Period

Stalingrad: a soldier’s testimony

Medieval monks: a day in the life

Episode 5Treasures of the tomb

The presenters of the recently launched BBC Radio 1 assemble for a group photo outside Broadcasting House, 1967. (Photo by Robert Stiggins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

BBC at 100Sounds of the Sixties

In a photograph taken at Bishop's Stortford railway station in Hertfordshire, 1972, resettled Ugandan Asians wait for the train that will take them to their new home. (Photo by Alamy)

Fleeing Idi Amin: the long journey to a new life

Gone with the Wind: how a 1936 novel explains modern America

Saint Wilfrid

15 minutes of fameMarc Morris chooses Saint Wilfrid

Treason: from Anne Boleyn to Lord Haw Haw

A real and a virtual Tycho Brahe surveys the heavens next to his mural quadrant in the frontispiece to ‘Machines of the New Astronomy’. (Photo by DEA/G.DAGLI ORTI via Getty Images)

A history of science in 10½ objects

The Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, on display at the British Museum

The Elgin Marbles: what are they and where are they located?

Gold rushes: everything you wanted to know

Jesus is shown cleansing ten lepers in a scene from the Gospel According to Luke, illustrated in an 11th-century manuscript

General History

LeprosyHow has the disease been perceived and treated through history?

David Attenborough with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, in a famous scene from 1979’s Life on Earth

BBC at 100The rise of natural history television and David Attenborough

Oscar Wilde with Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893

From Oscar Wilde to David Irving: 9 landmark libel & defamation cases through history

Reconstructing black lives in the Antebellum South

Episode 9Ends and beginnings

A portrait of Moses Roper, the first African-American fugitive from slavery to make a home in Britain

Moses Roper: the story of an American fugitive from slavery in Britain

Episode 4The mystery of Nefertiti

Hannibal: Rome’s greatest nightmare

African-American double act Buck and Bubbles (Ford L Washington and John W Sublett) were part of a coterie of entertainers of colour broadcast on the BBC in the 1930s (Photo by UPI/Bettmann via Getty Images)

BBC at 100Mirroring Multicultural Britain

An illustration depicting the Great Fire of London.

Your guide to the Great Fire of London, plus 10 surprising facts

Geometric pavers, colourful doors and gingerbread trim on a pair of Victorian terrace houses

Snuffers, scrapers and murder-holes: walking through the history of the front door

Stalin’s library: inside the mind of a dictator

A composite image of Elizabeth I, Mary I and Elizabeth of York

How Elizabeth of York paved the way for her granddaughters to rule

Rosalind Franklin as seen in a 1956 photo

Why we should remember…Rosalind Franklin’s pioneering scientific career

The tombstone of a Roman soldier named Vivius Marcianus.

How the Great Fire of London revealed the city’s Roman past

Head of the Ancient Egyptian Queen Tiye

15 minutes of fameJoyce Tyldesley chooses Queen Tiye

The partition of India: everything you wanted to know

Flames and smoke are seen billowing from the roof at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, 15 April 2019. Yet despite the devastation, the fire is “not the worst chapter in its 850-year history”, argues Dr Emily Guerry. (Patrick Anidjar/AFP/Getty Images)

Notre-Dame fire"It's extraordinary what has survived"

Notre-Dame cathedral, which dates back to 1163. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images)

Notre-Dame10 facts about Paris's famous cathedral