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The death of a dream: why Europe's great year of revolution in 1848 failed

Paul Stephenson and Guy Bailey

The great British civil rights scandal: the Bristol bus boycott

The Cuban Missile Crisis: everything you wanted to know.

Hamo Thornycroft's 1901 statue of King Alfred the Great in Winchester. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #12: secrets of the famous Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.

Stained glass window of King Alfred the Great

Exclusive podcastThe Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.

A miniature from the Codex Justinianus

Plague, famine and sudden death: 10 dangers of the medieval period

'Tippoo's Tiger', made for Tipu Sultan. (Photo by Alamy)

Museums and colonialism.

German Heinkel HE-111 bombers fly over Britain during a mission in September 1940

8 reasons why the Luftwaffe didn’t stand a chance of beating the RAF in the Battle of Britain.

Phillipa Soo, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Jasmine Cephas Jones as the Schuyler sisters in 'Hamilton'. (Image: Disney+)

The women of Hamilton: Angelica, Eliza and… Maria Reynolds

HistoryExtra Academy Roman Britain: course certificate.

Wolfson Prize winner 2020 David Abulafia. (Photo by Fran Monks)

Exclusive podcastDavid Abulafia on The Boundless Sea.

Tom Hanks in 'Greyhound' (2020)

Second World War

The real history that inspired WW2 film Greyhound

Phyllis Schlafly

The woman who opposed equality with men: Phyllis Schlafly and the real history behind Mrs. America.

Winston Churchill gives his famous v-sign. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Second World War

From Winston Churchill to the Bengal famine: are we in denial about our role in WW2?

Freedom fighters: the enslaved people who fought for the abolition of slavery.

A group of fighter pilots of No. 32 Squadron relax beside their Hawker Hurricane Mk I fighters at RAF Hawkinge in July 1940

The Few: who exactly were the heroes of the Battle of Britain?.

Adolf Hitler photographed with Nazi war generals

Second World War

What was Operation Sealion, Hitler’s planned invasion of Britain? And why was it cancelled?

Huge sun setting over power lines and palm trees in California. (Photo by Getty Images)

California’s century of change.

The ship ‘Jesus of Lübeck’ was used in John Hawkins’ infamous early slaving voyages, some of which were sponsored by Elizabeth I. (Image by Alamy)

Were there slaves in Elizabethan England?

Taking of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, Painting by Emile Signol (1804–1892), (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

BlogMedieval(ish) matters 11: Did women fight in the crusades? And why did people follow a goose to the Holy Land?.

The bronze equestrian statue of Robert the Bruce looks out over the site of the Battle of Bannockburn, Stirling, where the Scottish fought for their independence from the English in 1314. (Photo by Getty Images)

The Scottish Wars of Independence: everything you wanted to know.

Carved Pictish Stone in the Meigle Museum east of Blairgowrie, Scotland. (Photo by Alamy)

The Picts.

The birth pains of the NHS: how Britain's National Health Service was created.

Women and the crusades.

A view of Mount Everest

Mystery on Everest: did Mallory and Irvine reach the summit in 1924?

Elizabeth I arrives in Tilbury

The Spanish Armada: one of history’s biggest fibs?.

World War Two: the challenge of commemoration.

Illustration from Dante's ‘Inferno', depicting thieves tormented in hell by serpents.

General ancient history

A brief history of the afterlife

The bikini was showcased to the world for the first time in July 1946. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

8 historical events that happened in July

A girl, with her brother on her back, trudges past a stalled American tank, South Korea, June 1951. (Photo by Alamy)

How we forgot the Korean War.