Period

Portrait of a young Queen Victoria, c1850, by F Winterhalter

How the killing of Queen Victoria’s personal chef changed Anglo-German relations

A recruitment poster used during the First World War, c1915.

Why Britain was right to go to war in 1914

BBC History Magazine

Scientists discover what ancient Europeans looked like

Memories of Churchill and the history of the individual

First World War

Gary Sheffield on First World War debate: 'A German victory would have been a disaster for Britain'

BBC History Magazine

March 2014

First World War

Niall Ferguson: “Britain should have stayed out of First World War”

BBC History Magazine

My favourite historical places: Professor Rebecca Earle

Photo of a bomb

Q&AWhat was the Battle of the Herrings?

Paxman on World War One

Discovering Tutankhamun

My history hero: Yolanda of Aragon (d1442)

Revealed: how the Georgians taught us to diet 300 years ago

BBC History Magazine

My favourite historical places: Dr Kate Williams

Ye olde travel guide: Turin, 1887

Historian Miles Russell. (Photography by Philip Hartley for BBC History Magazine)

History explorerExtravagance in Roman Britain: a visit to Fishbourne Roman Palace

BBC History Magazine

Historian at the Movies: The Railway Man reviewed

Behind the scenes of the BBC’s swashbuckling new series The Musketeers

Pillage of Jerusalem

Crusading for God and gold

Troops on a night raid during the First World War

Jeremy Paxman: "The war finished Britain off in many respects"

Britain and the Union

Talking Tudors: Sam Willis meets Suzannah Lipscomb

Daniele Manin proclaiming the Republic of Venice, 22 March 1848. (Photo by De Agostini Picture Library/A. Dagli Orti/Bridgeman Images)

1848: the year of revolutions

BBC History Magazine

After 200 years of strife, who will win the battle for Egypt?

Historian at the Movies: 12 Years a Slave reviewed

A glass of wine and dish

Q&AWhich are the oldest surviving restaurants in London?

Britain in 1914 and Jesus in history

Is Blackadder bad for First World War history?

Author Linda Colley.

Acts of union and disunion

The Great Ulster Rally in Hyde Park, April 1914.

1914: Why the war caught Britain cold