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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, US President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and French President Jacques Chirac at the NATO Summit in May 1997

Nato, Russia, and the history of the post-WW2 tensions.

A late 16th century portrait of Anne Boleyn (c.1500-1536)

Q&ADid Anne Boleyn have six fingers on one hand?

Witch hunters: cynical persecutors or misguided zealots?.

First photo of baby Charles Lindbergh Jr

Q&AWho was the Lindbergh baby?

A portrait of Caroline of Ansbach

Caroline of Ansbach: why George II's remarkable queen was the first iron lady of British politics

Fascism in Britain.

Photo of fence and barbed wire

Q&AWhat does Iron Curtain mean, and who popularised the term?

Two boys uncover a cache of food during Ukraine’s Holodomor famine, c1934

“Russia has always refused to let Ukraine go”: Keith Lowe on the long roots of today’s crisis.

Illustration of folkloric beings

A history of Britain's folklore.

The American Revolutionary War: everything you wanted to know.

Episode 2Establishment values in the 1930s.

Leif Erikson in Vikings Valhalla

Vikings: Valhalla – the real history behind Netflix’s successor to Vikings

Stone engraved with the representation of the gods Odin, Thor and Frey, with a sacrifice to Odin

Christians and pagans in Norse society: the real religious rifts between Vikings

Vikings: Valhalla’s real inspirations.

Russian civil war, 1919

General History

Russia-Ukraine crisis: 9 milestone moments in history that explain today’s invasion

Welsh flag, featuring a dragon. The red dragon of Wales dates back to Roman times. (Photo by Getty Images)

Q&AWhy does the Welsh flag feature a red dragon?

Nixon in China: a week that changed the world.

Actress Vesta Tilley poses with a bicycle while dressed in male uniform

General History

Drag kings: a brief history of male impersonators

Sir Oswald Mosley taking the salute from female members of the BUF

Your guide to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists (BUF)

Nixon in China: the trip that changed the Cold War.

Has Russia always played by its own rules?

Has Russia always played by its own rules?.

In defence of Neville Chamberlain.

People visit the prehistoric monument Stonehenge in January 2022

Stonehenge: a historian’s guide to visiting the stones.

A marble bust of the Roman Emperor Claudius

Roman invasion of Britain: did the Britons ignore them?.

Wales' fans celebrate victory at the 1957 Five Nations Tournament, France vs Wales, holding the Welsh symbol, the leek. (Photo by Universal/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Q&AWhy is the leek associated with Wales?

Mrs Caroline Backhouse Astor

Mrs Astor and the Four Hundred

Spies in show business.

Stonehenge: everything you wanted to know (part two).

Second World War

The secret WW2 mission to save Britain’s art collections.

Curling stones during a match at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah

General History

A brief history of curling – from medieval Scotland to the Winter Olympics