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Helmingham Hall, Suffolk

BBC History Magazine

Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages

Aerial view of the Roman fort of Vercovicium

10 places where history was made

Dawyck Botanic Garden, Scottish Borders

German soldiers with a horse-drawn cart during the retreat from Ukraine in 1943. The idea of Teutonic efficiency was a triumph of Nazi spin, says James Holland. (Keystone/Getty Images)

The great misconceptions of the Second World War

Wolfson History Prize 2013 special

Visit historic Conwy

A photograph of photographer George Lowe and Cho Oyu mountain

In picturesThe conquest of Everest

The LibraryBritain’s brutal battles for hearts and minds

Strangers’ Hall, Norwich

Truth, lies and historical fiction: an interview with 'The White Queen' writer Philippa Gregory

A crew of Dambusters pictured together in c1943. The famed Dambusters raid, Operation Chastise, was an RAF attempt to breach German dams and so "deprive Ruhr industry, and the Mittelland Canal of water, over the longest period of time possible". (Royal Air Force Official Photographer/ IWM via Getty Images)

The legacy of the Dambusters

A big day in history: Rioters give East Anglia's rich and respectable a fright

Q&A: Why did news of Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar take so long to reach England?

Ye olde travel guide: Madrid 1621

My history hero: Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)

Goodrich Castle, Herefordshire

The Spanish Armada: Tudor spin portrayed the events of August 1588 as a glorious English victory but, argues Robert Hutchinson, bad weather and bad tactics had more to do with the Spanish fleet's failure than Elizabethan derring-do. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Spanish Armada: England's lucky escape

British soldiers in Normandy. Though Goodwood cost the British some 200 tanks, infantry losses were relatively light, says Mark Urban. (Capt. E G Malindine/IWM via Getty Images)

Operation Goodwood: one of the biggest British disasters of the Second World War?

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'4,000-year-old skeleton' uncovered near Windsor

18th-century slave uprising

General prehistory

Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire

Dwarves in the Holocaust and the Vikings' cultural legacy

Pompeii comes to London

BBC History Magazine

Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages

A Pompeian fresco from the first century showing a woman tuning a musical instrument. Excavations at the partially buried Roman city reveal that women played a prominent role in the home, and that they took personal grooming very seriously indeed. (Photo by: Werner Forman/UIG via Getty Images)

At home with the Romans

Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States

Visit historic Warwick

BBC History Magazine

Time's Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination

The story behind Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home