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Statue of Leif Erikson (Leifur Erikssonn) in front of Eric the Red's home. (Photo by Draper White, Getty Images)

Leif Erikson’s voyage to Vinland

Richard III

What if…Richard III had won at Bosworth?

The collapse of the Third Reich

Richard Nixon resigns

Which US presidents have been impeached? A brief history of presidential impeachment

Domesday Book: medieval big data

The city Bhaktapur looming over the Kathmandu valley

The hippy trail: a pan-Asian journey through history

The Renaissance: everything you wanted to know

Félix Kir in 1947, when he was the mayor of Dijon

Second World War

History heroSimon Farnaby chooses Félix Kir (1876–1968)

The decline and death of Henry VIII

Extract from Domesday Book.

Your guide to the Domesday Book: the most important document in English history?

Muslim women embrace after Ramadan ends, 2012

"Does every generation have to prove itself in Britain?" Kavita Puri on the experiences of South Asians in Britain

Was the 1990s a golden age for British South Asians?

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie in profile: facts about her life

Editor’s pick: Ian Kershaw on postwar Europe

Women queue for potatoes in a greengrocer's shop in London, c1945. (Photo by Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer/IWM via Getty Images)

Saving food, saving lives: rationing in the Second World War

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Helen Keller

Queen Victoria in her coronation robes.

Your guide to Queen Victoria and a timeline of her life – plus 16 fascinating facts

Brexit’s long historical roots

Professor Robert Tombs, Fellow of French history at St John's College

"Both sides of the Brexit debate have got things wrong about our history": Robert Tombs on Britain's complex relationship with Europe

Portrait of Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's most successful queen?

Queen Victoria

The Victorians and the British Empire: a brief guide and timeline

Editor’s pick: Lenin’s revolutionary train journey

(L to R) Isaac Newton, Henry VIII and Bal Gangadhar Tilak

How did people cope with ‘lockdowns’ of the past? And were they really all so productive?

A 19th-century engraving. A young woman plays a harp, singing a duet with a man holding the music book, Duets de L’Amour. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

A survivor's guide to Georgian marriage

19th century advert for snuff

Q&AWhat was snuff?

A cartoon depicting the Duke of Wellington, who demands attention outside a house, while the Duke of Argyll, inside with Harriette Wilson, pretends not to recognise him.

Georgian Britain: sex in high places

Gary Oldman plays Winston Churchill in the 2018 Oscar winner 'Darkest Hour'.

Think pieceOur dangerous devotion to the Second World War

The battle for Sicily, 1943

Winston Churchill on roller skates

How the roller skating craze caught Churchill

The Industrial Revolution: everything you wanted to know