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William of Orange landing at Torbay, 1688

Your guide to...the Glorious Revolution

Actress Emmy Goring and her husband Hermann

Nazi wives: the women beside Hess, Goebbels, Göring and Himmler

John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon

Does history show that age affects US presidents’ performance? Plus, how old is too old?.

Historian Mary Beard at the Oxford Literary Festival 2019. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Mary Beard on the nude in western art.

Democratic presidential candidates Birch Bayh, Jimmy Carter, Fred R Harris, Milton Shapp take on the press during the Iowa Democratic Caucus on 11 January 1976. (Photo by NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)

A brief history of the US Democratic Party.

The 18th-century rabbit breeding hoax (Photo by Getty Images)

The woman who gave birth to rabbits.

January 1973: Londoners reading the newspapers headlining Britain's entry into the Common Market.

When did the UK join the European Economic Community (EEC) and why?

Portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach, 1543. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Europe's holy war: how the Reformation convulsed a continent

(Illustration by Davide Bonazzi for BBC History Magazine)

The big question: has the European Union been a success?

Members of the royal family at an event marking the centenary of the Royal Air Force. (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Opposing the royals: a brief history of republicanism in Britain.

Photo of Adolf Hitler

Rise of a dictator: how did Hitler gain power and become the führer of Germany?.

Youths salute Adolf Hitler

Second World War

Hitler Youth: how the Third Reich used children’s organisations to wage war

Indian soldiers during WWI

Indians in the trenches.

Portrait of John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan), who disappeared in 1974 following a bloody homicide

The curious case of Lord Lucan + 10 other mysterious disappearances from history.

Policemen from Scotland Yard patrolling at night

Real-life Sherlocks: the detectives of Scotland Yard and their curious cases.

Thomas Blood stealing the Crown Jewels

The day Thomas Blood stole the Crown Jewels.

An illustration of the barons compelling King John to ratify Magna Carta, 1215. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

6 facts about Magna Carta

Pope Francis celebrates a priesthood ordination and mass in St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP via Getty Images)

General History

Sex and the (Vatican) City: a brief history of clerical celibacy

Fighting for the vote.

Glamorous portrait of movie actress Hedy Lamarr wearing white fox fur short jacket

History heroMartha Lane Fox chooses Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000)

Holocaust orphans (Photo by Getty)

The Holocaust orphans.

The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill

The death of Sir Winston Churchill and the top-secret plans for his funeral

An engraving depicts a frost fair on the Thames

Frozen: Britain's Little Ice Age

Child survivors at Auschwitz

Second World War

A brief history of Auschwitz

Simon de Montfort’s medieval revolution.

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector

Royalists, beards and cowardice: are these the strangest taxes in history?.

6 lesser-known facts about the Ottoman Empire

Princess Margaret wearing a fur coat

The Queen's "rebel sister": 13 facts about Princess Margaret

Sir Nicholas Winton

Second World War

The 'British Schindler' who saved 669 children from the Nazis

American president Warren G Harding and his wife, First Lady Florence Harding.

Tension in the Middle East and populist presidents: what the world was like 100 years ago.