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A depiction of the execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico by firing squad

The Siege of Querétaro: the downfall of Maximilian I of Mexico.

What if...The Ottomans had won at Lepanto in 1571?.

Trailblazers of black British theatre.

QuizHow much do you know about Titanic?

Domenico Fetti painting illustrating a melancholic woman in the early 17th century

The Anatomy of Melancholy: how Robert Burton helped shape our understanding of the mind.

St George’s Day: 11 facts about England's patron saint

Peter Caddick-Adams

Peter Caddick-Adams on the laws of war“Russian politicians and military figures behind the awful events unfolding in Ukraine will, one day, be brought to justice”.

The coats of arms of the kingdoms of Scotland and France

Q&AHow old is the Auld Alliance between France and Scotland?

The Jagiellonians: the dynasty that shaped central Europe.

An illustration of a Soviet warship inside a Pepsi bottle

Q&AIs it true that Pepsi briefly owned Soviet warships?

Robert Ballard with an image of Titanic’s upper deck

TitanicWhen & where was the wreck finally discovered?

From running marathons to working the nightshift: 8 surprising things women were banned from doing through history.

Operation Mincemeat: WW2 espionage on film.

Royal residences: everything you wanted to know.

The trouble with viking hypermasculinity.

The NorthmanHow the real Viking prince Amleth inspired Shakespeare

The Northman: bringing the Viking world to life on screen.

Ben Macintryre is the author of Operation Mincemeat

Ben Macintryre"I had never realised quite how close Operation Mincemeat came to disaster".

Newspaper boy with news of the Titanic disaster, 14 April 1912

TitanicWhat happened after the sinking?

Cockfighting pit with crown surrounding a fight

Feather beds, cockfights and midnight flights to the moon: 5 fascinating chapters in avian history.

A still from James Cameron's 'Titanic'. (Image by Alamy)

How accurate are the most famous films about Titanic?

Winston Churchill discusses the invasion of Sicily with other senior Allied figures in 1943

Second World War

Operation Mincemeat: how a corpse duped Hitler

Pets, pests & portents: birds through time.

The Northman stars Alexander Skarsgård as Viking prince Amleth

“You are in their world, not in ours”: How The Northman makes the Viking Age real

Training of young Rwandan Hutu on the road to Kigali, 27 June 1994

Genocide: what can we learn from history?.

Episode 4Medieval medical thinking.

Inside a Roman home.

A depiction of Titanic’s final moments, as the ship sinks and passengers watch from a lifeboat

TitanicWhen did it sink & how long did it take?

Medieval emotions: were they like our own?.

Clara Barton sitting at a table

How Clara Barton became the ‘angel of the battlefield’