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The ruins of Barnard Castle

Barnard Castle: a journey through time

The US cutter Spencer attacks U-boat U-175

The Battle of the Atlantic: why Britain almost lost to Hitler's U-boats.

A scene from the Smithfield Decretals depicting a rabbit beheading a man. Rabbits seem to have a strange place in medieval imagery – and are depicted as having strangely violent tendencies. "It’s the sort of thing to give you nightmares," says David Musgrove. (Photo by Album/British Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #5: chivalry, medieval killer rabbits and prisoners of war in the 15th century.

King Edward II

In profile: King Edward II

Medieval prisoners

What was it like to be a Prisoner of War during the Hundred Years’ War?.

King John II made prisoner at the Battle of Poitiers by the English during the Hundred Years War, 1356. Illustration

Medieval prisoners of war.

Medieval punishments, Toulouse, 14th century. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

How bloody was medieval life?

Ramshackle homes in a Newcastle slum, c1880

From riches to rags: David Olusoga reveals how Britain's grand houses descended into Victorian slums.

The British home has changed substantially in the past 300 years (Illustration by Ed Crooks)

The evolution of the British home: from the Georgian era to the present day.

Charles Cundall’s painting ‘The Withdrawal From Dunkirk, June 1940’

Second World War

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Dunkirk

King John hunting on horseback

Was King John really that bad? Yes!

David Olusoga on A House Through Time.

The crusades: everything you wanted to know.

Saturday lecture: Medieval crime and violence.

The 1618 Defenestration of Prague

The 1618 Defenestration of Prague explained

British ships on convoy duty in the North Atlantic

Danger in the deep: key questions about the Battle of the Atlantic answered.

The Battle of the Atlantic: the "desperate" WW2 campaign featured in Tom Hanks film Greyhound.

Annie Gray photographed at her home in East Anglia (Photo by Ian Farrell)

Cooking for Churchill.

Rutger Bregman. (Rutger Bregman (Photo by Maartje ter Horst)

Rutger Bregman’s optimistic history of the world.

This is the famous Rhynie Man carved stone, thought to be Pictish in date. (Photo by © Aberdeenshire Council Archaeology Service: www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/archaeology)

BlogMedieval(ish) matters #4: back to Braveheart, Viking river boats, Picts, and the Crusades.

Illustration of King John ripping up Magna Carta

What if...Magna Carta hadn’t been written?.

Books interview with Emma Griffin: "Looking at family life reveals a dark side to Victorian economic progress".

Protesters demonstrate against a US military base at Santo Stefano in 2005

Sardinia: the legacy of the notorious shepherd-bandits of the mountains.

The big question: what have the Romans ever done for us?.

Living on the edge in Victorian Britain.

Industrial revolution

Explore the Industrial Revolution – “the world’s greatest makeover” – with Monkman & Seagull

Photo of Queen Elizabeth II and members of the Privy Council

Your guide to...the Privy Council

The English Reformation: everything you wanted to know.

Members of 617 squadron, known as the Dambusters

Second World War

How successful was the Dambusters raid?

Surviving the Great Plague.