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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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Left: Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in German-occupied Poland, in June 1944. Between May and July that year, more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to the camp complex. Right: Prisoners at Dachau celebrate the liberation of the camp by US soldiers on 29 April 1945. The camp was used again after the war to house SS personnel awaiting trial, and then German refugees. (Photos by Getty Images and Alamy)

Aftermath of the Holocaust: how Europe dealt with the crimes of the Third Reich. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait head of Roman Emperor Nero circa AD 59-64. (Photo by Alamy)

Nero: Rome’s Antichrist?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Stained glass window of King Alfred the Great

Exclusive podcastThe Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Exclusive podcastDavid Abulafia on The Boundless Sea. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

The Picts. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The birth pains of the NHS: how Britain's National Health Service was created. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women and the crusades. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.