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Egyptian ships sunk at the entrance of the Suez Canal at Port Said

Your guide to...the Suez Crisis

Carved wall scene depicting Cleopatra at Dendera Temple

Cleopatra: what is the real legacy of the last pharaoh?

The Suez canal

How significant was the Suez Crisis?

A rare jewelled late Medieval cluster brooch,

Unburied treasures

Chew Valley Hoard

Unburied treasures: the 10 greatest discoveries made by the British public

Why was there a backlash against face masks during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918?

The Kray brothers

The A-Z of British gangs and gangsters

Four Murder, Inc hitmen are questioned by detectives

Murder, Inc: the rise and fall of New York City's mafia hitmen

A photograph of Rudolph Hoess during his trial in Warsaw in 1947. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Rudolf Höss & the men behind the mass murder at Auschwitz

American abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass, c 1866. (Photo by Shutterstock)

African American abolitionists in Britain

An 18th-century marble relief depicting Julius Caesar invading Britain by John Deare, a British neo-classical sculptor. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Geoffrey of Monmouth: the lost voice of ancient Britain

An aerial view of Tintagel Castle, Cornwall. (Photo by David Goddard/Getty Images)

ExploreTintagel Castle and the legend of King Arthur

The real history behind Victorian thriller ‘The Limehouse Golem’

Portrait of Catherine Howard

11 facts about Catherine Howard

The battle of First Bar, 1841

Your guide to...the Opium Wars

A stone believed to have magical properties, including the ability to summon rain, from Laraibina village in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. (Photo by Getty Images)

A history of magic

The real Aztecs: brutal, bloodthirsty... and caring?

An illustration depicting King Arthur fighting the Saxons, from the Rochefoucauld Grail. The absence of a clear and present origin for King Arthur has created a ‘void’ which many are keen to fill, says Miles Russell. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

The real King Arthur: why are we so obsessed with trying to solve the mystery?

Medieval queens: everything you wanted to know

At home with the medieval aristocracy

A royal banquet in the 13th century. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #14: What did an aristocratic household eat in the Middle Ages? And who was Eleanor de Montfort?

Left: Prince Charles and Princess Diana on their wedding day, 29 July 1981. Right: Prince William and Catherine Middleton on their wedding day, 29 April 2011. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

The 8 most famous royal weddings in British history

Lionheart of stone: the medieval statue debate

The original ‘Big Three’ at Livadia Palace in Yalta: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. None of them came away from the summit with everything they had hoped for. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

Second World War

Your guide to...The Yalta and Potsdam conferences, 1945

Statue of King Richard I outside the Palace of Westminster in London

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #13: Why aren’t monuments to medieval figures included in the statues debate, and was there racism in the Middle Ages?

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, during their first visit to England after the Duke's abdication, September 1939. (Photo by Getty Images)

Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson and the Abdication crisis

A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, 1806. (Photo by IanDagnall Computing/Alamy Stock Photo)

The dark side of Alexander Hamilton

The capture of Jerusalem in 1099

How the First Crusade captured Jerusalem in 1099

Q&AWho was St Swithin?

York Minster's rose window features 16th-century Tudor Roses white on red (left) and Lancastrian Roses, red

A brief history of the English rose