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Denis Dighton's painting shows the defeat of Napoleon's Imperial Guard at Waterloo

10 moments that decided the Waterloo campaign

Corfu: a Greek island getaway that owes much of its popularity to the Venetians. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Corfu, Greece

Waterloo 200 special

James Watt: your guide to the pioneer of steam engine technology

Waterloo: what was the battle like for Wellington’s Redcoats?

The perils of piety in Tudor England

An illustration depicting King John signing Magna Carta in 1215. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

6 Magna Carta myths explained

The real King John and the BBC in World War Two

The golden age of murder: Agatha Christie and the Detection Club

In pictures: medieval stained glass

A dead German soldier during the Antwerp offensive

The LibraryArdennes 1944: Hitler's last gamble

'The Plum Pudding in Danger by James Gillray

James Gillray: the king of Georgian caricature

Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum

BBC History Magazine

Dressed-up fleas, devil butterflies and the Thames whales: the strange ways nature has influenced human history

Photo of female cyclist in 1885

Q&AWere there health scares caused by new technology in the past?

Photo of Roman coins

Q&ADid Roman Britain have its own emperor?

A Roman galley warship

Q&AHow did a crow help Rome defeat Carthage?

The Battle of the Bulge and children of the Holocaust

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about London’s first zeppelin raid in 1915

Dying well; tears and sorrow on the death of a youth. Treasury of Wisdom, 15th century. (© The Art Archive/Alamy)

Heavenly dew: crying in the Middle Ages

The many lives of India

Love, health and the weather: 9 things medieval Londoners worried about

Fit for a queen: 3 medieval recipes enjoyed at English and Scottish royal courts

the streets of London on VE Day, 8 May 1945

The unsung heroes who won the war

Two survivors of the Lusitania disaster

Did Britain doom the Lusitania?

Jane Austen

My history heroJane Austen (1775–1817)

The stretch of the Great Wall at Mutianyu, China

General ancient history

My favourite place: The Great Wall of China

Merton College, Oxford.

History explorerMedieval universities

The history of India and a terrible explosion

Why Henry I could be the next ‘car park king’