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The 1815–46 Corn Laws: your guide to the crisis and why they were repealed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

Madame Tussaud's exhibition at Baker Street, London. But who was her first waxwork? (Photo by Bettmann, via Getty Images)

Q&AWho was Madame Tussaud’s first waxwork?

Mary Anning was an extremely prolific fossil hunter

Mary Anning: the woman who hunted dinosaurs

Shipwrecked in the Arctic: a 16th-century survival story.

The Roman emperors: everything you wanted to know.

Adventure and archaeology in the golden age of Egyptology.

Author and biographer Max Adams (Photo by Alamy)

Max AdamsBritain in the centuries after the Romans: “You can think of this era as a black hole into which our history tumbles”.

'Pirate queen' Grace O'Malley. (Illustration by Sue Gent for BBC History Revealed)

Grace O’Malley: the fearless pirate queen of Ireland

Henry the Young King is crowned in 1170. (Wikimedia Commons)

The real King Arthur and his Lancelot? Henry the Young King's remarkable friendship with William Marshal.

Crafting historical weapons for Wolf Hall and The Witcher.

Mary Seacole is best known for her work during the Crimean War, where she cared for injured soldiers. But she was also well-known as a hotelier, traveller and author – a celebrity of the Victorian era. This is a contemporary painting of her

Mary SeacoleVictorian celebrity, joyful hotelier and Crimean nurse

The 'Iron Duke' steam locomotive with railway workers

The history of railways in Britain: from the first steam trains to the rail revolution.

Prince Arthur and Catherine of Aragon

Prince Arthur, Catherine of Aragon, and Henry VIII: a story of early Tudor triumph and tragedy

Nefertiti: wife, mother, pharaoh.

Nathen AminHenry VII and the Tudor Pretenders.