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The Scandalous BoleynsWhy Do They Continue To Fascinate Us?.

VJ Day: turning the tide in the east.

The British Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on the day of George VI's coronation

Britain’s May Queen: your guide to Queen Mary of Teck

A portrait of King Charles I

Your guide to King Charles I, the deposed monarch who lost his head

An architectural grotesque of a woman displaying her vulva

How naughty was the past? The hidden depths of the medieval church

Robespierre’s brutal downfall.

Black and white image of a group of five men sat on the floor in a room in Fiji. One of them is pointing at another with a serious expression on his face.

Cakobau: the first (and last) king of Fiji.

Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials

Alice Roberts“Graves are like time capsules – little microcosms of prehistoric culture".

Anne of Denmark, wife of James I of England

Anne of Denmark: a killer queen?

Mary, Queen of Scots during her trial at Fotheringhay Castle – where she was also executed for her alleged role in the Babington Plot (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

What if...The Babington Plot to assassinate Elizabeth I had succeeded?.

How should we teach the slave trade?.

Mary Wortley Montagu: the scourge of smallpox

A bas relief fragment portraying Cleopatra

The female 'kings' of ancient Egypt

History heroSteven Berkoff chooses Laurence Olivier (1907–89)

Building utopia after WW1.

Portrait of Saladin (1560) by Cristofano Dell Altissimo.

Why does Saladin have such an enduring reputation?

The Ottoman empire: everything you wanted to know.

Portraits, power and royal wigs.

Scientists Frederic Joliot-Curie and his wife, Irene, at work in their Paris laboratory in December 1932. The couple were among a wide-ranging group of scientists whose work paved the way for the atomic bomb. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Hiroshima: the race to the atomic bomb.

Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies.

Meeting in Tenochtitlan between Hernan Cortes

Two worlds collide: Spanish conquistadors and Aztecs

A portrait of Katherine Parr in a jewelled head dress and finery

Q&AWhat happened to Katherine Parr’s daughter, Mary Seymour, after her mother’s death?

The transformation of India’s glamorous golden couple.

Women munition workers stacking a reserve of shell castings during WWI

Young guns: the women and children of WW1 munitions factories.

Portrait of Ide B Wells

Ida B Wells: civil rights activist and scourge of lynch mobs

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, on historical fiction.

Portrait Of Edward Seymour (Colorized)

Edward Seymour: the fall of the dithering dictator

Students study mathematics in Lahore in 1933

Revising the Raj.

Oliver Cromwell’s remarkable rise to power.

A composite of characters from 21st century period drama

What’s next for period drama?.