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The Thirty Years’ War: everything you wanted to know.

Rebels, hostages and diplomats: royal women of the crusader states.

1871: Otto von Bismarck reads the Proclamation of the German Empire at Versailles following Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Germany’s pre-Nazi history: rethinking the Second Reich.

To beard or not to beard? Facial hair through history.

Learning the hard way: soldiers struggle to move a field gun through the Flanders mud. The key to victory in the west was the Allies’ ability to effect one of the “most consequential technologies and tactical transformations in the history of war,” says Nick Lloyd. (Photo by Getty Images)

Revolution on the western front.

Richard III: your guide to the last Yorkist king of England

A set of dentures belonging to George Washington. The first US president wore fake teeth for much of his life

Q&ADid George Washington have wooden teeth?

Julius Caesar. (Photo by Getty Images)

Caesar's British gamble.

Alexander the Great on his horse, Bucephalus

Bucephalus: why is Alexander the Great's horse famous?

The western front: a cauldron of innovation.

The 'Alexander Mosaic' showing Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great: all you need to know about the empire builder and military genius

Edgar the Aetheling is notably missing from the Bayeux Tapestry

The lost figure of the Bayeux Tapestry: where is Edgar Ætheling?.

Professor Stephen Hawking in his office at the University of Cambridge, 2003

History heroBobby Seagull chooses Stephen Hawking (1942–2018).

Assassinations: from the ancient world to JFK.

A portrait of Marie Antoinette

Q&ADid Marie Antoinette really say “let them eat cake”?

A medieval illustration of women fighting and toiling alongside men during a siege

Crusader queens: the formidable female rulers of Jerusalem.

The big questions of women’s history.

The Cold War: everything you wanted to know.

The 1815–46 Corn Laws: your guide to the crisis and why they were repealed

Voices of China.

Nell Gwyn was a mistress of King Charles II

Nell GywnThe orange girl who became a king's mistress in Restoration England

An illustration of a 17th century plague doctor

Fake historyHunting down false facts about the past.

Exclusive podcastGame of Thrones’ medieval roots.

Why treason was so unforgivable in the Middle Ages.

A photograph of the battle of Moscow, 1942, first printed in Signal, a magazine published by the German Third Reich from 1940 to 1945. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Second World War

Operation Barbarossa: why Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union was his greatest mistake

Formidable dynasties of the Italian Renaissance.

A Red Cross worker in the United States, 1918

Spanish flu: the virus that changed the world.

Vikings in North America.

Women 'take the air' in an attempt to ward off the Spanish Flu

"Far too little, too late": what happened when Spanish Flu hit Britain?.

Josephine Baker with her adopted children. She called them the ‘Rainbow Tribe’. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Memorable mothers: history’s most remarkable mums.