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Mourning Martin Luther King JrThe life and legacy of the civil rights leader.

An engraving depicting London's Piccadilly Circus heaving with crowds on their way to The Great Exhibition of 1851. A banner reading 'God save the Queen and Prince Albert' has been strung across the street. Within the Crystal Palace some 100,000 objects were displayed – taking up ten miles of space – the work of 15,000 contributors. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

From the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Britain: the decline and fall of the British empire

English cavalry attacking the Sikh at the Battle of Aliwal

Victoria the warrior queen.

Britain’s Swinging Sixties: everything you wanted to know.

MI9’s secret escape missions.

Hitler and Stalin: tyrants at war.

A portrait of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert with five of their nine children, by Frederick Winterhalter

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: was their union a marriage of misery?

Illustration of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava during the Crimean War

Victorians and war: which conflicts were fought during the Victorian era?

Queen Victoria

The final days and death of Queen Victoria

How historians helped build the British empire.

A composite image of Joseph Stalin (left) and Adolf Hitler

Second World War

Hitler and Stalin’s utopian dreams

When British pop invaded America.

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.