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A 15th-century manuscript depicts soldiers using crossbows during the Battle of Crecy in 1346

A short history of long-distance warfare.

An 18th-century painting depicts Alexander the Great preparing to hack through the Gordian Knot with his sword

General ancient history

Q&AWhat was the Gordian Knot?

The Stuart princess who could have deposed Charles I.

John Duval Gluck, Jr, 'the Santa Claus man', pictured left, visiting the General Post Office to promote the Santa Claus Association’s benefit show

The con man who saved Christmas.

Fascism: everything you wanted to know.

Yugoslavia: the beginning of the end.

A Victorian Christmas card

HistoryExtra's Christmas history quiz

Christmas feasts with Annie GrayEpisode 3: Victorian merrymaking.

The first controlled, powered and sustained human flight on 17 December 1903 by the Wright Brothers. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Flying into history: the Wright Brothers' Flyer and the world's first flight

Black and white image of island prison, taken from the sky

The battle of Alcatraz, 1946: the most violent escape attempt in the prison’s history

What happened to Britain’s lost Roman legion?

Sketch of Pytheas of Massalia standing on the deck of a wooden ship. He was a Greek explorer who claimed to have visited the British Isles

Q&ADid any ancient Greeks visit Britain?.

Triumph against the odds: the 1821 Greek Revolution.

Photo of members of the Versailles Conference

First World War

Your guide to the Treaty of Versailles

Anna Whitelock's Talking PointsFriends or enemies?.

Tom Smith's Surprise Cosaques, Christmas Crackers 1878. (Image by Getty)

The history of Christmas crackers

Pearl HarborEpisode 4.

A 13th-century fresco showing Isabella of Angouleme, Eleanor of Aquitaine and two squires

Eleanor of Aquitaine: the worst royal mother-in-law?.

HistoryExtra Medieval Masterclass with Dan Jones

Medieval Masterclass with Dan JonesRevolution 1348–1527 AD.

HistoryExtra Medieval Masterclass with Dan Jones

Medieval Masterclass with Dan JonesRebirth 1216–1347 AD.

HistoryExtra Medieval Masterclass with Dan Jones

Medieval Masterclass with Dan JonesDominium 750-1215 AD.

HistoryExtra Medieval Masterclass with Dan Jones

Medieval Masterclass with Dan JonesImperium 410-750 AD.

Sketch of Lord Richard Rich

Q&ADoes Richard Rich deserve his bad reputation?

Emma Dabiri“He dreamed a career that seemed impossible and made it a reality”.

England’s last witches.

Hadrian’s Wall: everything you wanted to know.

Animals in space: from Laika to jellyfish & tortoises.

Michael Wood on James Bond“Bond’s role grew out of proportion to Britain’s standing in the world”.

Froissart illustration of Hugh Despenser the Younger's execution by being hanged, drawn and quartered. Despenser is on a ladder, as a man beside him disembowels him and tosses his entrails into a fire

‘Godly butchery’: the horrifying history of hanging, drawing and quartering

Schoolchildren in Liverpool have their Christmas party in an air raid shelter built into a railway arch

What was Christmas like in Britain during WW2?.