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A Fool Rebuked by God, 14th-century psalter. (Photo by Heritage Arts/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

Medieval marginalia: exploring 'doodles' from the Middle Ages.

The Mayflower.

Enola Holmes (left to right): Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes, Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes, Sam Caflin as Mycroft Holmes. (Photo by Robert Viglaski/Legendary)

From Enola Holmes to Fanny Dickens: recognising 5 historical women ‘overshadowed’ by their more famous brothers.

The Spanish Princess Part II. (Image by Starz)

The real history behind The Spanish Princess

JFK: the path to power.

The bloody rise of Augustus

Viking genes unravelled.

Napoleon watches on as the fighting at Waterloo unfolds in this 1843 painting

What if…Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo.

Winston Churchill pictured in July 1964, a few months before his 90th birthday – a milestone that he marked with tears. The prime minister would cry at everything from suffering pets and march-pasts to dying friends and poetry recitals. (Picture by PA Images)

Churchill: the ‘cry-baby’ war hero.

Prinsesstårta. (Photo by Samantha Nott)

Historical recipePrinsesstårta (Princess cake).

A mother and her children amid the smoking rubble of their city in 1940. (Photo by Getty Images)

Hitler’s vengeance.

An official of the British East India Company riding on an elephant with an escort of foot soldiers and mounted Indian retainers, India, end of 18th century (Photo by Getty Images)

The East India Company: everything you wanted to know.

Ghosts of Viking London.

Ben Macintyre on Agent Sonya – the greatest female spy in history.

Ada Blackjack: how the 'female Robinson Crusoe' escaped death in the Arctic.

A sign of the devil or a miracle cure? How people felt about spiders in the Middle Ages.

A group of American soldiers captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Java, 1942 (Photo by Getty Images)

Prisoners of the Japanese.

Portrait of Catherine of Aragon

Your guide to Catherine of Aragon: Henry VIII’s first wife and mother of Mary I

Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville

History heroMichael Morpurgo chooses Krystyna Skarbek (1908–1952).

Pilgrim Fathers boarding the Mayflower

5 facts about the Mayflower

A painting of the Tudor succession

The truth about the Tudors: what 5 kings and queens were really like behind closed doors.

London burns behind Tower Bridge on 7 September 1940

Second World War

Days of destiny: 5 key dates in the Battle of Britain

A Hawker Hurricane in flight over Britain

Second World War

Your guide to the Battle of Britain: how the RAF turned back the Luftwaffe

Medieval rebellions.

History graduate Steve Humphries' 1998 film exploring the stories of women who worked in Magdalene laundries

How my history degree led to my dream job.

Charles SpencerThe White Ship.

Queen Victoria with her children and grandchildren

The marriages of Queen Victoria’s grandchildren: how the dynasty shaped Europe

How did England react to the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1751? (Illustration for BBC History Magazine)

Q&ADid the introduction of the Gregorian calendar spark riots?.

A suffragette march

The Suffragettes: everything you wanted to know.

Scythians: Warrior Nomads of the Steppe.