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Finance and war

The Stygian Lake in the Fifth Circle of Hell from from Dante’s epic poem 'The Inferno'. The phrase "Paint the town red" may originate from the sentence in the poem "we are they who painted the world scarlet with sins". (Photo by Getty Images)

Q&AWhy do we say ‘Paint the town red’?

My favourite place: Janina Ramirez

The decline of the pub: what can we learn from history?

Q&AD-Day: How did a weather forecast change the fate of the war?

Photo of Chelsea Pensioners

Q&ACould you really once be hanged for impersonating a Chelsea Pensioner?

Portrait of Henry VIII

Q&AWhich of Henry VIII's wives was his best match?

Destroyer escorts fire depth charges against submarine raiders in the Atlantic during the Second World War. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

What the modern navy did for us

Ye olde travel guide: Goree, 1782

Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist Cyril Lionel Robert James talking to a group of students at Speakers' Corner, London, in 1967. (Photo by Roy Milligan/Daily Express/Getty Images)

My history hero: CLR James (1901–89)

English gardens and Latin American football

Revealed: the secrets of the Tudor cross-dressers

Incent's House as it stands today on the Berkhamsted High Street. (Creative Commons)

The hunt for the Tudor hitman

A Nobel Prize, a 3,600-mile voyage and the battle of Marengo: 3 things that happened On This Day 14 June

BBC History Magazine

Bid to uncover battle of Hastings remains

BBC History Magazine

James Clerk Maxwell, Israeli troops and John Dickens: 3 things that happened On This Day 13 June

The legacy of the First World War

A nurse on the French Eastern border treats a wounded soldier during the First World War. (Photo by Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

Pain through the prism of war

A mosaic depicting the poet Virgil writing the Aeneid. (Photo By DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini/Getty Images)

How to succeed in Ancient Rome

Revealed: Jane Austen's country life

BBC History Magazine

Neptune, Georgia and the battle of Toulouse: 3 things that happened On This Day 9 June

My favourite place: Michael Scott

BBC History Magazine

Richard I, the Falkland Islands and John Scott Russell: 3 things that happened On This Day 8 June

BBC History Magazine

Chloroform, Jean Harlow and the Marquess of Dorset: 3 things that happened On This Day 7 June

Second World War

The LibraryD-Day: James Holland answers your questions

BBC History Magazine

Top 5 history programmes you can watch and listen to right now

Second World War

"If I don't come home": letters from a D-Day captain

Brazil: where sport and politics have always mixed

Wolfson History Prize special

Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein on trial in December 2008 in Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo by Nikola Solic-Pool/Getty Images)

The first butcher of Baghdad