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Turning points in British history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The most common accidental way to die in Tudor England reveals surprising truths about daily life

Maria of Modena: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Maria of Modena: The queen who started a revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Arson, murder and goddesses: secrets of a Seventh Wonder of the Ancient World. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Frontier life: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American physicist J Robert Oppenheimer arrives at Orly Airport in Paris to lecture at the Faculté des Sciences. Once a leading figure in the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer’s postwar career was marked by international engagement and growing controversy. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

How Nazi secrets triggered the ultimate moral dilemma – and led to Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb

Forgotten stories from South Asian history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This illustration from the Codex Manesse (c.1300) shows Konrad von Altstetten, a Swiss ministerial, reclining with his beloved after a hunt. The lavish manuscript, compiled in Heidelberg, preserves the courtly poetry and romantic ideals of the German medieval nobility. (Photo by Getty Images)

Wandering womanisers? These charismatic bards took the medieval world (and its women) by storm

Was the atomic bomb necessary to end war with Japan?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Age of Spectacle: Live Aid at 40. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This floor mosaic from a Roman villa in Carthage depicts a boy hunting leopards

Could today’s kids survive in ancient Rome? Here’s the harsh reality of life as a Roman child

Hug a tree like a pagan from the margins of Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

JMW Turner: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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General History

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Hiroshima: in the shadow of the bomb. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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"There's little understanding of the shared history of Britain and the subcontinent" | South Asian Heritage Month. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

WW2 evacuees: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This scene depicts Clovis I, founder of the Merovingian dynasty, executing a soldier who defied him over the famed Vase of Soissons around AD 480. The story, preserved by Gregory of Tours, became a legendary example of royal authority and vengeance in early medieval France.

This dynasty of medieval kings had a secret weapon – and you probably have it too

Jason Momoa as Ka'iana in Apple TV+ drama Chief of War

Who was the real Kaʻiana in Chief of War? Meet the warrior noble who defied a king

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Chief of War: the true story behind the creation of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi

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General ancient history

Wanderlust: Bettany Hughes on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

To the left, there is a black and white image of Queen Victoria. She is dressed in dark clothing and has her hair partially pulled back by a black fastening. Facing her, on the right is an image of John Brown, a bearded man wearing military uniform and a hat. Over them, there is a pink treatment with a rip in it

How I uncovered Victoria's secret love: Historian Fern Riddell explains all. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria's secret love affair. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

John Brown, here with Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria and John BrownThe controversial relationship between sovereign and servant

This striking wall painting, known as The Blue Ladies, comes from the Minoan palace at Knossos on Crete. Dating to around 1600 BC, the fresco reflects the sophistication of Minoan art and offers rare insight into fashion and ceremonial life in the Bronze Age Aegean.

Three thousand years ago, the ancient Greeks turned an even older civilisation into a monster

A woman dressed in a grey top and a green and orange bandana holds a black and white photograph of a young man against her chin. She stands in front of a plain, yellow wall

The Srebrenica massacre: the worst atrocity committed on European soil since the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 300-year battle over free speech. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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"Museums are magical places": Kavita Puri on a new initiative encouraging close encounters with history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

This illustration from the Arnamagnæan Collection in Denmark depicts Eric the Red, the Norse explorer who founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland around AD 985.

A thousand years ago, the Vikings had a shock encounter with Native Americans that ended in disaster