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Ayatollah Khomeini

General ancient history

A brief history of Iran

Peronne, March 1917

Operation Alberich: the story of Germany’s retreat in 1917.

David Bowie and Twiggy

David Bowie's life in pictures

Edvard Munch's painting 'Love and Pain'

The Vampyre stirs: 200 years of vampire entertainment.

French prime minister Georges Clemenceau (left), US president Woodrow Wilson (centre) and British PM David Lloyd George at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. The treaty's provisions have been blamed for causing the Second World War. (Image by Topfoto)

First World War

Did the Versailles peace treaty trigger another world war?

Portrait of Prince Albert

What killed Prince Albert?

From Allies to enemies.

American actresses Frances Dee, Jean Parker, Katharine Hepburn, and Joan Bennett playing the March girls in George Cukor's film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women', 1933. (Photo by RKO Pictures/Courtesy of Getty Images)

“Fresh and full of soul”: the history of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.

Crowds protest in Tehran

Opinion: is Iran a nation at war with itself?

"A great social experiment”: a brief guide to prohibition

An illustration of Jeffrey Hudson and Queen Henrietta Maria

The amazing life of Jeffrey Hudson, the queen's dwarf

A poster for Terence Fisher's 1958 horror 'Dracula'

From Dracula to The Historian: 5 gothic novels that reflected the anxieties of their age.

The long history of Brexit.

The two faces of Robert Mugabe.

Venezuela: a hundred years of turmoil.

The filthy Middle Ages?.

Setting a trap: East German soldiers construct the Berlin Wall, 13 August 1961. The barrier was an attempt to stop the flood of Germans fleeing from east to west – yet, as scores of audacious escape bids attest, it didn't entirely succeed. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Escape from East Berlin: an audacious bid to tunnel under the Berlin Wall.

A curious history of Christmas.

William the Conqueror (1027–87), king of England from 1066 when he beat Harold II at the battle of Hastings. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

9 surprising facts about William the Conqueror and the Norman conquest

History Advent Calendar 2019

Advent calendar 2019: 24 facts about Christmas through history

A vintage colour postcard, possibly produced to send Christmas greetings from the frontline, somewhere on the Western Front, during the First World War, c1918. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

Christmas10 ways Christmas was celebrated during the First World War.

Jumping beans, throwing shoes and weather forecasting: medieval ways to look ahead to the New Year.

Westminster Abbey, London

A brief history of Westminster Abbey

2019 Christmas history podcast quiz.

“Somewhere in between exploitation and empowerment”: James Norton on society osteopath Stephen Ward

The Trial of Christine Keeler. (Photo by BBC)

Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies: the women at the heart of the Profumo Affair

Mandy Rice-Davies (left) and Christine Keeler

Notes on a scandal: revisiting the Profumo Affair.

The birth of the modern world.

British nurse Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), aka the 'Lady with the lamp', makes her rounds during the Crimean War. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The lady with the stats: how Florence Nightingale’s nursing by numbers is still influencing today’s healthcare.

Midwives and babies in the sun

Midwifery and childbirth: a historical A–Z guide.