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British army soldiers face off against a group of Irish civilians

Why we should remember…Bloody Sunday

A murder mystery in 19th-century Dublin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Plan of the island of Utopia, from Thomas More's work of the same name depicting an ideal state

Thomas More's Utopia – what lessons did it have for Tudor England?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King George II of Great Britain

George II: 8 facts about the British king and German elector

Trading and crusading in the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of tall ship

Q&AWho do we say 'shot across the bows'?

Coronation chicken recipe

Historical recipeCoronation chicken. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Demerara slave uprising. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Vienna Plague Hospital, 1679. (Getty Images)

What were women's lives like during the 17th-century plague?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

When were punctuation marks first used? Illustration by Glen McBeth for BBC History Magazine.

General History

Q&AWhen were punctuation marks first used?

The Age of Sail: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Admiral Lord Nelson: 10 days that created a legend. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ancient Greek scientific thinking. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hells, heavens and afterworlds: a traveller’s guide. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

School photo showing rows of children from a Manchester school

Did Britain really roar in the 1920s?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Neville Chamberlain holds aloft the famous piece of paper at Heston aerodrome on 30 September 1938. (Picture by Alamy)

Second World War

The Munich agreement: a battle with Hitler that almost brought down the government

Neville Chamberlain shows off the Anglo-German Declaration at Heston Aerodrome

Second World War

Q&APeace for our time: what was written on Neville Chamberlain's piece of paper?

Illustration of enemies shaking hands

What makes for a good peace?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Outbreak of dance mania

The medieval dancing plague: what caused people to dance themselves to death?

A depiction of the French and Indian War, with George Washington on horseback

A guide to the Seven Years’ War

Residents of Palermo, Sicily, line the streets to greet the American Sherman tanks after the town had surrendered to the Allies

The battle for Sicily: breaking into Fortress Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women who served in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emma Dabiri"The Harder They Fall doesn’t engage with one of the main drivers behind the violence". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton, the great Antarctic explorer of the Heroic Age

A group of BBC staff surround a large piece of broadcasting equipment

BBC at 100The BBC begins: how a group of radio pioneers launched one of Britain's most famous institutions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in mounted combat

Richard the Lionheart: king of war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Malcolm GaskillThe Ruin of All Witches. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A forgotten witch hunt in New England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Michael Wood on the Parthenon Sculptures"The case is unique: the sculptures are bound up with Greek identity". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Goods & globalisation: merchants in Tudor & Stuart England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.