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The city Bhaktapur looming over the Kathmandu valley

The hippy trail: a pan-Asian journey through history

Jerry Brotton on the Renaissance. (Image by Getty Images)

The Renaissance: everything you wanted to know

Robert Hutchinson on the death of Henry VIII. (Image by Getty Images)

The decline and death of Henry VIII

Extract from Domesday Book.

Your guide to the Domesday Book: the most important document in English history?

Muslim women embrace after Ramadan ends, 2012

“Does every generation have to prove itself in Britain?” Kavita Puri on the experiences of South Asians in Britain

Kavita Puri on the HistoryExtra podcast

Was the 1990s a golden age for British South Asians?

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie in profile: facts about her life

Ian Kershaw on the Second World War. (Image by Fran Monks for BBC History Magazine)

Editor’s pick: Ian Kershaw on postwar Europe

Women queue for potatoes in a greengrocer's shop in London, c1945. (Photo by Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer/IWM via Getty Images)

Second World War

Saving food, saving lives: rationing in the Second World War

Nelson stands in the Nile culling crocodiles in James Gillray's cartoon 'Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt' (1798). The crocodiles represent captured or destroyed French ships at the battle of the Nile, while Nelson is cast as a cross between Moses and Hercules. (Archiv Gerstenberg/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Admiral Lord Nelson: 10 days that created a legend

A portrait of Helen Keller (1880-1968) holding a Braille volume, c1956. Keller, who was both blind and deaf, was an American writer, educator and advocate for the disabled. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Helen Keller

Queen Victoria in her coronation robes.

Your guide to Queen Victoria and a timeline of her life – plus 16 fascinating facts

Robert Tombs on Brexit's long historical roots. (Image by Getty Images)

Brexit’s long historical roots

Professor Robert Tombs, Fellow of French history at St John's College

“Both sides of the Brexit debate have got things wrong about our history”: Robert Tombs on Britain’s complex relationship with Europe

Portrait of Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII’s most successful queen?