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An aerial image of Maiden Castle, site of Britain's largest hillfort. (Photo by Robert Harding/Getty Images)

What was life like in the Iron Age? Plus 6 places in Britain to explore. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Lynn Hatzius

Britain’s Bonnie and Clyde. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The ruins of the Canadian port of Halifax in the wake of the explosion in December 1917. Almost 2,000 people were killed and 9,000 injured when two ships collided at the height of the First World War. (Photo by Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images)

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

A British soldier uses a searchlight to spot German aircraft during the Second World War. Britain has lived with the fear of invasion for several centuries, a fact reflected in its architecture, its art and its people’s mental health. (Photo by David Savill/Getty Images)

The LibraryThe island fortress fallacy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Animals that changed us. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A view over Yaoundé, Cameroon

My favourite place: Yaoundé, Cameroon

BBC History Magazine

Big History Survey

Britain on the edge. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History heroJeremy Corbyn chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Carbonniere Tower

My favourite place: the Camargue, France

The Charles II Royal Oak

ExploreCharles II's great escape. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Simon Schama.

Books interview: Simon Schama. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Blitz

Second World War

The cruel cost of the Blitz: how did everyday Britons rebuild their lives?

Black faces of Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

General Edmund Allenby walks into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s unholy mess. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

The British soldiers who fought for Germany in the world wars. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

An 1864 illustration depicts King Henry VI and the Dukes of York and Somerset, after York's return from Ireland in 1450. Artist James William Edmund Doyle. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Wars of the Roses: York v Beaufort?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Violeta Parra and the birth of ‘New Song’

Edward, Prince of Wales, in the rear seat of a Bristol F.2B Fighter with Captain WG Barker of No. 139 Squadron during his flight in 1918, while on a visit to the Italian Front. (Crown Copyright/Air Historical Branch image H1608)

Royal flying

Charles II on the run. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The real history behind ‘The White Princess’

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

In ‘Venus Uncovered’ on BBC Four, Wednesday 15 November at 9pm, Bettany Hughes investigates the mythological figure of Venus. (© Sandstone Global/Image by Tim Knight)

Bettany Hughes on the symbol of Venus

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

Second World War

The Coventry Blitz – Q&A with historian Frederick Taylor

Sewing for the Nazis: who were the dressmakers of Auschwitz?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

First World War

Britain’s Chinese army. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.