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Modern Welsh history: everything you wanted to know.

Emma Dabiri"William Cuffay's story is more relevant now than ever".

George II: reassessing a much-forgotten monarch.

A hard-fought history of trespass.

The Green Knight shows his severed – and still talking – head to King Arthur in this illustration of the beginning of the 14th century legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

“A eulogy to the cult of chivalry”: what can Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tell us about Edward III and the Hundred Years’ War?.

Representations of digits from the ninth century, 11th century and the present day

Digital revolution: the evolution of Hindu-Arabic numerals

Soldiers of the Third Reich surround a huge bonfire during a winter solstice festival in December 1936. The Nazis attempted to use elements of pagan beliefs to promote a Germanic ‘national religiosity’. (Photo by Getty Images)

Witches, werewolves and vampires: the Nazi's quest for the supernatural

LectureNiall Ferguson on the politics of catastrophe.

Antwerp: city of innovation & intrigue.

A runner is helped across a finish line

21 key moments in the history of the modern Olympics

A group of men observe a body lying on a table.

Early-modern cannibal doctors: why mummified corpse was considered medicine.

How the 1964 Tokyo Olympics redefined Japan.

Q&A: What was the punishment of being ‘burnt in the hand’?.

Australian bushrangers: folk heroes or common criminals?.

Olympic history: everything you wanted to know.

Why were the Georgians fixated with fatness?.

Medal winners on a podium

Q&AWho won the first Olympic medal? And what was the prize before that?

How assassinations have changed history.

Dev Patel stars as Sir Gawain in The Green Knight an adaptation of the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

The Green Knight on screen: what can we expect from the retelling of an Arthurian epic?

A man runs on an athletics track with a crowd behind him

Harry Edward: Britain’s first black Olympic hero.

The Persian ambassador bows before Louis XIV in the Palace of Versailles

King of the world: how Louis XIV turned France into a global power.

Crown Prince Olav on his ice yacht (Getty Images)

From Hollywood to war heroes: 10 Olympians who were more famous outside sport.

Belgium and the Netherlands compete in a tug of war at the Antwerp Olympic

Olympic oddballs: 5 unusual Olympic sports from the past.

Jesse Owens sprinting on a track at the Berlin Olympics.

A history of unsporting conduct at the Olympics.

Elinor CleghornThe History of Unwell Women.

Mao Zedong applauds a parade of Red Guards in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. These young militants followed Mao’s call in early August 1966 to defend the party from a ‘white terror’. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Reign of the red terror: Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution.

The slave trade: a family history.

Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few weeks after the disaster

What was the Chernobyl Disaster?

Tokyo Olympics 1964: Yoshinori Sakai prepares to light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony. Born on the day that the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, he was a symbol of Japan’s postwar reconstruction and peace

Tokyo Olympics 1964: the Games that defined Japan.

The piano: a musical history.