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A helmet from a chieftain's grave in 10th-century Norway. (Images by Getty)

Inside the Viking mind: the view of the Vikings' world from 5 perspectives

A miller and a donkey

9 things you could do with a medieval ass

Ten things to do with a medieval donkey

Hunting down the Portland Spy Ring

Marble bust of Nero

Rethinking Nero: was the Roman emperor really so bad?

Canterbury Cathedral

How Thomas Becket's feud with Henry II led to murder

The gay MPs who opposed appeasement

Edward Jenner

Q&AWhen did medical practitioners start to be called ‘doctor’?

Magna Carta: everything you wanted to know

Richard III

Richard the radical: was Richard III a champion of the people?

Nelson's passion for Emma – with whom he had a six-year affair – is writ large in his letters

Nelson in his own words

Japan and the west

Georg Elser, a little-known carpenter-turned-assassin whose daring attempt to kill Hitler almost succeeded

Georg Elser: the man who nearly assassinated Hitler

David Olusoga“The Victorians constructed a great empire of abstinence”

History heroAndrew Marr chooses Charles Darwin (1809–82)

Richard III, Queen Victoria and Henry VIII. (Photos by Getty Images)

Monarchy history quiz: test your knowledge of these kings and queens

Cundill Prize-winner Camilla Townsend on global history

Toby WilkinsonThe rediscovery of Ancient Egypt

One of the burial mounds at Sutton Hoo

How dark were the Dark Ages?

Castro and the trip that shaped the 1960s

Portchester Castle in Hampshire was intended as a coastal defence against raiders. (Photo by Getty Images)

The collapse of Roman Britain: what happened, plus 9 places which tell us more

Fishbourne Roman Palace, plus 5 more Roman mosaics you can explore in Britain

George Washington Carver in a laboratory

History heroGillian Burke chooses George Washington Carver (c1864–1943)

Imperialism on the oceans

Wrens operating the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park, 1943

Second World War

Your guide to Bletchley Park, the key WW2 decryption centre

This 15th-century painting from a manuscript shows men fishing in a river. In medieval England, eels were both meals and de facto currency. (Photo by Bridgeman)

Fishing for gold: how eels powered the medieval economy

The death of John Lennon: what happened?

Almond Hedgehog: A debonair addition to the hostess’s armoury in the Georgian period. (Illustration by Clair Rossiter for BBC History Magazine)

What was the best meal in history?

Jane Austen's fiction: an accurate portrayal of life in Georgian England?

The International Brigades: fighting fascism in Spain