Period

Food from the past and the history of illegitimacy.

Second World War

Second World War heroes ‘had most sex appeal’

In pictures: strange creatures through history

The tombs of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in Fontevraud Abbey, France. (Dreamstime)

The duchy of Aquitaine: an English ‘colony’ in deepest France.

Revellers at Stonehenge

General prehistory

Q&ADid the druids have anything to do with Stonehenge?

Shakespeare and war in the Middle East.

In Ancient Egypt, what was the afterlife?.

My favourite place: Dominic Sandbrook

BBC History Magazine

Vote for this year’s History Hot 100

A still from a 1960 film about the Alamo, showing the chapel being covered by troops

Remember the Alamo! What happened in the 1836 siege and battle?

Picture of children being put to bed

Q&AWhat was 'pigging'?.

Photo of archaeologist revealing a skull

General ancient history

Q&AWho was the first archaeologist?

Photo of a horse

Why do we say 'horse of a different colour'?

Photo of British coins

Q&AWhy do we have the letters 'FD' on our coins?

First World War

How did WW1 end?

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: Frames in focus

The Victorians’ grisly fascination with murder.

The medieval city of Carcassonne

My favourite place: Languedoc, France

William Hogarth

My history hero: William Hogarth (1697–1764)

A British major pictured in German captivity

"How I fell captive to the Germans": the experience of First World War PoWs.

Parts of the Magna Carta

The amazing legacy of Magna Carta.

The life of Keynes and a trip to Ancient Greece.

Mistresses through history: the term wasn’t always about secret sex

A brief history of medieval magic

Lambert Simnel

Lambert Simnel: Richard III’s heir who 'had a stronger claim to the throne than Henry VII'

A demonstrator vents his spleen at police officers during an anti-Vietnam War rally in London's Grosvenor Square

Britain at war over Vietnam.

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary.

5 photographs that (you didn’t know) changed everything.

The bronze effigy on the tomb of Edward Plantagenet, known as the Black Prince, in the Trinity Chapel of Canterbury Cathedral, Kent. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Q&AWhy was the Black Prince called ‘Black’?

The Peasants’ Revolt.