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An overturned vehicle on tramlines as a blockage to traffic during the General Strike of 1926

A brief history of strike action.

Tudors play real tennis, a precursor to the modern game of tennis

Q&AWhat was Real Tennis?

The sinking of the Gloucester as depicted in a c1682 painting

Why the Gloucester might be the most important shipwreck since the Mary Rose.

The Spanish flee Tenochtitlan under fierce fire during La Noche Triste.

Why we should remember…When Spanish conquistadors were forced to flee the Aztec capital.

Casanova: more than a serial seducer.

From bohemian Brighton to military Plymouth: the LGBTQ history of four British cities.

New Yorkers outside the Stonewall Inn in June 1969.

Why we should remember…The 1969 raid on the Stonewall Inn.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, with his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, riding in an open carriage at Sarajevo shortly before their assassination on 28 June 1914

Franz Ferdinand“This mythologised murder did not trigger WW1”.

Austrian crown prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie

The shot that sparked the First World War.

Marguerite de Navarre

15 minutes of fameSuzannah Lipscomb chooses Marguerite de Navarre.

Queen TiyeOvershadowed ancient Egyptian royal.

Marie TharpGround-breaking cartographer.

Franz NopcsaHungarian adventurer and palaeontologist.

St WilfridQuarrelsome church reformer.

Alice KinlochPan-African activist.

Tsiang Ting-fuChinese historian and diplomat.

Hildegard of BingenMedieval polymath.

Marguerite de NavarreRoyal influencer.

Nisha Katona and Samuel Pepys

History heroNisha Katona chooses Samuel Pepys (1633–1703).

The Mali empire: everything you wanted to know.

Episode 6Political tensions in the 1970s and 80s.

The life and death of Elvis Presley

October 1876: General Nelson Miles talking with Chief Sitting Bull after the army's defeat at Little Bighorn

The battle of Little Bighorn: what happened at 'Custer's last stand'?.

The fourth earl of Sandwich, contemplating a sandwich in a thought bubble

Did the Earl of Sandwich invent the sandwich?

Book cover of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four: to the future or to the past?.

Video: Dan David History Prize 2022

Clare Jackson with her Wolfson History Prize winning book, Devil-land

General History

The story of England’s turbulent Stuart century wins the Wolfson History Prize 2022

Who were the Celts?.

Mowgli is surrounded by wolves in a 1937 illustration from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book

General History

Raised by wolves: the history of feral children

An angry crowd of around 400 miners blockade National Coal Board boss Ian McGregor inside a colliery office at Ellinton Colliery, 22 February 1984

Your guide to the miners’ strike of 1984–85