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Charles Dance as Lord Mountbatten in season 4 of 'The Crown'

The Crown S4 E1 real history: when Charles met Diana, and the death of Lord Mountbatten

Viking warrior women & the ethics of excavating the dead.

War and society: a tangled relationship.

In pictures: 150 years of the British Red Cross.

Historian Sarah Gristwood reviews The Crown season 4: “We’ve reached the issue of how fiction influences opinion in the real world”

Statue of King Alfred the Great in leafy Trinity Church Square, Southwark. It is thought to be the oldest statue in London.

Q&AWhat’s the oldest statue in London?

Map of the universe, miniature from The Tales of Luqman, Arabic manuscript, 1583. (Photo by Getty Images)

Ingenious medieval science.

A portrait of Cnut holding a sceptre. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Cnut: the great Dane.

Buckingham Palace on VE Day in 1945

7 facts about Buckingham Palace

A portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft: reclaiming the reputation of a feminist icon.

From the British Isles to Italy and Spain: how the Normans reshaped Europe.

Women in black: the surprising history of widows.

Katherine Willoughby in an 18th-century engraving after a Hans Holbein the Younger portrait. In 1546 the prospect of her marrying England's ageing King Henry VIII was causing tongues to wag in diplomatic circles. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

A seventh wife for Henry VIII? The story of Katherine Willoughby.

The Queen's husband, Prince Philip, as a young man

Your guide to the Queen's husband, Prince Philip

Queen Elizabeth II at Falkland Islands remembrance service 2007

Was the Queen opposed to the Falklands War?.

Buckingham Palace intruder Michael Fagan

Buckingham Palace intruder Michael Fagan: what happened and why did he break in?

An RAF crew with their American Douglas Boston light bomber, circa 1943. (Photo by Getty Images)

Personal stories of the Second World War.

When Bergen-Belsen was liberated, huts designed to house about 30 people were found to be crammed with as many as 500. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

Your guide to the Holocaust

Robert Rinder (right) in My Family, The Holocaust and Me

Growing up in the dark shadow of trauma: Robert Rinder on the legacy of Holocaust

The Russian revolution: everything you wanted to know.

The story of the Dambusters.

From the first Remembrance Day to remembrance today.

Illustration of the raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne

Slaves in the Viking Age: how prevalent were enslaved people in Viking societies?.

Inside the Viking mind.

Chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934) in her laboratory. She shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre for their work in radioactivity. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Marie Curie: the woman who stirred up science.

Lucy Worsley in Regency period costume

Lucy Worsley on royal history's biggest fibs.

Dr Edward Jenner, a British physician, performing his first vaccination on James Phipps, a boy of eight, in 1796. (Photo by Getty Images)

The history of vaccination: from Edward Jenner to anti-vaxxers.

1983: Princess Diana, here with Prince Charles and baby William in Australia, insisted that her sons experience normality (Photo by Bob Thomas/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

Life in the royal nursery: growing up as a young prince or princess.

Escaping Nazi-occupied Europe.

The White Ship disaster

The White Ship disaster"The most disastrous moment in British maritime history".